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...system were 90% effective, the leakage of just a fraction of Moscow's 8,500 or so warheads could be devastating. Says Kosta Tsipis, co-director of a program in science and technology at M.I.T.: "The critical failure of all these defensive systems is that they must be perfect. Less than that and they are ruinous. What the President is offering is a cruel hoax...
...Jesse came up with some really nice saves there.”After Wisconsin successfully killed the Crimson power play, Zaugg struck again to essentially put the game out of Harvard’s reach.Sprinting alongside Badgers forward Meghan Duggan on a 2-on-1 break, Zaugg received a perfect pass from Duggan and slipped the puck past Kessler 3:15 into the third for her second goal of the game and 24th on the season, bringing bring the score to 4-1.“I’ve played against [Zaugg] a few times and she?...
...work or I just had a break-up—he was always there,” said Zoe Teegarden, a Harvard Hillel community member who said she was a close friend of Meyers. “Present. He was always present—that’s the perfect word to describe Isaac. He didn’t judge. He just accepted everybody.” Members of the Hillel community held a vigil yesterday in Meyers’ memory, where Teegarden and a handful of Meyers’ friends told stories about his compassionate, offbeat personality. Hillel Rabbi...
...concerned, we were replacing an environmentally superior system: I put food in the garbage disposal, it went out to the ocean, fish ate it, and I ate the fish and put the uneaten fish bits right back into the disposal--a perfect, waste-free circle of life. Cassandra didn't see it that way. She wanted the thrill of watching food decompose. I wondered if we could do something else for the planet instead: save trees by ordering fewer fashion magazines, protect cows by massively reducing our purchases of boots and handbags, conserve energy by not watching Gossip Girl...
...three date with Penn. Naturally, Madick got the nod in game one. She didn’t just get the ‘W,’ she pitched a complete-game no-hitter with seven strikeouts and a single walk—the only blemish on an otherwise perfect stat sheet. The next day, with Harvard clinging to a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning, Madick again walked into the circle. The Penn players knew the rest would be just a formality, as Madick tossed the last seven outs to win the series. “When...