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Goverdhan Singh Rathore broke the news gently to his young guests: there might not be a tiger. They had traveled all day through the Indian countryside by car and train with their families to Ranthambhore National Park to see the tigers, and Rathore, a medical doctor turned hotelier who grew up in the park, wanted them to understand why there were only 32 remaining in the 155 sq. mi. (400 sq. km) reserve. It was cocktail hour, and the families staying at Khem Villas, the 15-room guesthouse opened by Rathore and his wife Usha 2 1?2 miles...
...Harvard women’s cross country team, there is only one direction to go this weekend: up. The Crimson will travel to New York City’s Van Cortlandt Park to compete tomorrow morning in the 31st annual Heptagonal Championship, which serves as the championship race for the Ivy League. Last year, the Harvard women finished a disappointing eighth, nearly 200 points behind champion Princeton. But a lot has changed for the Crimson in the last year, and most of that is due to coach Jason Saretsky’s first recruiting class. “They?...
...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...street too were Sherrie and her eight-year old son from fire-free South Park. They had collected old clothes and pennies to help the evacuees in Qualcomm. They took them to the stadium and then had to bring them back home. The next day it was learned a communications error was responsible for donations being turned away. Undeterred, Sherrie and her son say they'll try again...
...producing strategy, the hardball gods stuck it to Selig by having teams that play in two of the coldest major league cities, Denver and Boston, advance to a Series that could creep into November. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played on November 1 at Boston's Fenway Park...