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...Military Academy. Two friends and I packed up a barbecue and drove to West Point, where our cadet was in the midst of summer field training. It wasn’t important that none of us knew how to grill—or, rather, it didn’t occur...
Rathgeber will now focus on preparing for the U.S. Nationals, which will occur in Indianapolis, Ind. from July 31 to Aug. 4. Crimson teammates Sam Wollner and David Guernsey will also be competing at the event...
...others had to adjust to a different racing format. In college, races usually consist of a preliminary heat in the morning and a final in the evening, but the Pan Am Games add another level—the semifinals—to the event. As a result, the prelims occur in the evening, with the semis and finals occurring in the mornings of the following two days...
...right, in a sense. Real, better known as natural, pearls are practically impossible to buy in Hong Kong or anywhere else, these days. Natural pearls occur when foreign material, usually a stone or parasite, enters an oyster's shell and it can't expel the irritant. The mollusk instead coats the intruder with nacre, the secretion used to make its shell, forming a pearl. Once, they were the exclusive preserve of royalty - the fact that only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl made them more valuable than diamonds...
...White House and Congress bicker over timetables and benchmarks, intelligence estimates and report cards, the real question is the one neither camp is facing very well: How do we leave in a way that maximizes the good that we can still achieve and minimizes the damage that will inevitably occur? The best strategic minds in both parties have argued for months that the answer is essentially to muddle our way out, cut our losses carefully and try to salvage what we can from a mission gone bad. Even under the rosiest scenarios, the U.S. will suffer a humbling blow...