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...should have been.”Simmons started the scoring early in the first period, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead. Freshman Jess Halpern continued the effort with the next two Harvard goals, but Vermont was able to match each one, locking the score at 3-3. The pace of the game did not change until the second half of the first period, when the Crimson knocked in five goals and the Catamounts tallied only one. Vermont finally responded in the beginning of the second half with three goals in a row. But the comeback was short-lived...
...Washington, D.C., said that the technical difficulties and expenses for the cleanup are substantial, but that Japan has the technological base to get on with the project - if the political will is in place. "Not surprisingly," Smithson said, "the Chinese and some outside observers have criticized the snail's pace of destruction efforts." That pace has just gotten even slower, highlighting the difficulty the two countries continue to face in putting a nasty past behind them...
...Formula One has become one of the great sporting festivals. The 2008 World Championship resumes in Bahrain on April 6 and continues at an appropriately frenetic pace until the 18-race show winds up in São Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 2. Along the way, F1 rubber will burn on four continents, drawing in more than half a billion television viewers. Between them, the 11 teams have spent about $3 billion in their quest to be fastest. Throw into the mix the kind of A-list celebrities you used to see ringside at heavyweight title fights, and a scattering...
...Israel (Cachao) López was playing professionally--though he had to stand on a wooden crate to reach the neck of his bass. In 1937 he and his brother Orestes composed a tune called El Danzón Mambo, which later rocketed to popularity simply as the mambo when the pace was slowed for dancing. His freestyle jam sessions paved the way for groups like the Buena Vista Social Club, with whom his nephew now plays bass. Throughout his career, López was revered by fellow musicians, but he was launched to international fame when Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia featured...
...Starbucks went public with 140 stores, and from practically the very beginning, the company expanded at a breakneck pace, growing store count 40% to 60% a year. It wasn't just about coffee. Starbucks took care of its employees as well as its beans. In an almost unheard-of move for a food retailer, the company offered health insurance, a costly policy that Schultz insisted on; as a child, he had watched his family's finances crumble when his father suffered a broken ankle at his job as a delivery-truck driver...