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Plenty of would-be stars spend years angling for -- and just missing -- a national television appearance. For Myra Kristine Palmer, a near-miss with TV fame came very early in life. In fact, she had just been born...
...meantime, researchers have been carefully studying the effects of ozone depletion on Antarctic life. Marine ecologist Sayed El-Sayed of Texas A& M University discovered two years ago at Palmer Station, a U.S. base on the Antarctic Peninsula, that high levels of ultraviolet damage the chlorophyll pigment vital for photosynthesis in phytoplankton, slowing the marine plants' growth rate by as much as 30%. That, in turn, could threaten krill, shrimplike creatures that feed on phytoplankton and are a key link in Antarctica's food chain. Says El-Sayed: "Fish, whales, penguins and winged birds all depend very heavily on krill...
...Palmer's] size changes a lot of people's games," Schernecker said, "but we have a lot of things to offset that and we didn't use them...
DARTMOUTH (75): Brendan O'Sullivan 6-10 1-3 13; John Conley 1-4 0-0 2; Walter Palmer 4-8 10-10 18; James Blackwell 5-10 4-4 15; John Mackay 1-7 3-4 5; Rob Summers 2-4 1-4 5; Bill Taylor 1-4 0-0 3; Gary Campbell 1-1 0-0 2; Alex Gayer 1-1 0-1 2; Michael Lombard 3-7 4-5 10; Steve Trundle...
Three-pointers: Blackwell, Taylor; Schernecker 4, James. Rebounds: Dartmouth 41 (O'Sullivan, Palmer 8), Harvard 39 (Mitchell 13). Assists: Dartmouth 8 (Blackwell 2), Harvard 12 (Campbell 5). Steals: Dartmouth 12 (Blackwell 4), Harvard 7 (Campbell 3). Blocked Shots: Dartmouth 6 (Palmer 5), Harvard 2 (Campbell, Schernecker). Total fouls: Dartmouth 21, Harvard 23. Fouled out: Palmer. Turnovers: Dartmouth 20, Harvard...