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Taylor was not the only recent Harvard graduate to place beyond expectation on Saturday. Men’s track co-captain Chris Clever ’00, who placed ninth at NCAAs on May 30, rebounded to fourth place in the men’s javelin with a peak throw of 72.47 meters and beat 2001 NCAA champion John Steigeler of Oregon in the process...
...England Journal of Medicine that show that long-term antibiotic treatment is no better than a placebo for folks with chronic Lyme disease. Originally scheduled for publication in July, the research is part of a group of findings made public last week--just in time for the peak Lyme months of June and July. If confirmed by another major study that's looking at chronic Lyme and antibiotics from a slightly different perspective, the results would seem to settle the question once...
...example, passengers should spend no more than five minutes checking in at the gate. Each airline gets a copy of the report and a note from Massport pointing out problems. Airlines, say Massport officials, are generally responding well and have already taken such corrective steps as adding personnel at peak times. Massport says that if an airline fails, it will be warned first, then fined. Eventually it could face losing gates...
...then up from Base Camp to Camps 1, 2 and 3, getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment?especially oxygen canisters?to make a summit push. They had tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed 100 m.p.h. and that what looks from sea level like a cottony wisp of cloud is actually a killer storm at the summit. Bad weather played a fatal role in the 1996 climbing season documented in Into Thin...
...with only seven days left in the climbing season, most of the N.F.B. expedition members knew this was their last shot at the peak. That's why when Erik and Chris Morris reached the Balcony, the beginning of the Southeast Ridge, at 27,500 ft., after a hard slog up the South Face, they were terribly disappointed when the sky lit up with lightning, driving snow and fierce winds. "We thought we were done," Erik says. "We would have been spanked if we made a push in those conditions." A few teammates gambled and went for it, and Jeff Evans...