Word: perches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Harvard came tumbling down from its lofty perch, as it lost the Adams Cup to Navy and Penn by more than three seconds. To regain its preeminent position on this coast, the Crimson now must wait two weeks until the Eastern Sprints...
Adulation and awards were never a problem. She copped a Grammy as Best New Artist in 1973. Her 1979 LP, The Rose, went platinum. In 1983 she even found a perch on the best-seller lists with her children's book The Saga of Baby Divine. But what, these days, becomes a legend most? The one little item that eluded Bette Midler: movie stardom. Her galvanizing turn in The Rose, as a soulful thrush on the high wire of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll, earned the actress raves and an Oscar nomination and . . . precisely no film offers. Her next...
...Albert see Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer flutter down and perch behind the Crimson...
...Best of the Rest: Michigan State was knocked off the nation's top perch during the holidays by a 7-3 defeat to Western Michigan in the first round of the Great Lakes Invitational. Following Harvard in the latest WMPL/WZRK Radio Poll are Minnesota (20-5), North Dakota (18-6), the Spartans (20-4-1), Boston College (14-4), Bowling Green (19-4-1), Lowell (14-3-1), Maine (11-6-2), Wisconsin (13-10-1), and Denver...
...colleagues are more cautious about Protoavis' perch in the evolutionary tree, but most agree that it is a significant find. "It's hard not to make a bird out of it," says Paleontologist Nicholas Hotton III of the Smithsonian Institution. But he is reluctant to render a final verdict. If additional Protoavis specimens bolster Chatterjee's interpretation, it would indicate that birds appeared and diversified much earlier than scientists had believed. "Paleontology is like dealing with a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for which you only have 15," says Ostrom. "This fossil gives you another 15 or 20 pieces...