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What would’ve been the wide receivers of the future have now become the wide receivers of the present. With the onset of sophomore Marco Iannuzzi’s season-ending collarbone injury suffered in Harvard’s Ivy opener against Brown, four relatively inexperienced receivers—sophomore Levi Richards, freshman Adam Chrissis, junior Mike Clarke, and senior Alex Breaux—will be called onto the field for even more live action. “They haven’t really been in the game as much, but that doesn’t mean they...
...effects of the market crash. In September, employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing and retail trade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which put the nation's unemployment rate at 6.1%. Shutoffs of electricity and gas are rising as families struggle to pay bills with the onset of winter weather across much of the country. And tent cities are beginning to pop up in places like Reno, Nev., and Seattle for the first time in decades...
...obvious difference between then and now is that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has learned from history - not surprising, given that he once studied the Great Depression intensively. Since the onset of the credit crunch in August 2007, Bernanke has repeatedly cut the federal-funds rate from 5.25% down to an effective rate at one point last week of about 0.25%. He has pumped money into the financial system through a variety of channels: in all, about $1.1 trillion over the past 13 months...
...full-grown in size, Giedd explains, but "in a lot of psychological literature, traced back to [Swiss psychologist Jean] Piaget, the highest rung in the ladder of cognitive development was about age 12 - formal operations." In the past, children entered initiation rites and started learning trades at about the onset of puberty. Some theorists concluded from this that the idea of adolescence was an artificial construct, a phenomenon invented in the post-Industrial Revolution years. Giedd's scanning studies proved what every parent of a teenager knows: not only is the brain of the adolescent far from mature, but both...
...ball to deflect the potential game-winning goal away.Harvard continued to attack but Pennock once again stonewalled the Crimson by saving senior midfielder John Stamatis’ shot with two seconds remaining in regulation.Desperation struck the Harvard frontline in overtime and an aggressive offensive formation at the onset of the extra period ultimately caught the Crimson defenders too far up the field. Despite not registering a shot in the final 15 minutes of the game, the Rams pounced on a loose ball opportunity in the second minute of sudden death to seal Harvard’s fate.The Crimson now face...