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...lightweights finished second in the Jope Cup with 31 points, while the heavyweights tied with North-eastern for fourth with 26 points. Princeton took both Cups, which are presented to the school whose light-and heavyweight crews perform the best in the freshmen, junior varsity and varsity races...
...spawning new high-yield varieties of bug-resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beets. There the Northern Crop Sciences Lab, the Biosciences Research Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways. N.D.S.U. grew so fast in the 1980s under the pork-barreling patronage of then Senator Quentin Burdick that local wags dubbed the campus "Burdickville.'' Now that the spigot may finally dry up, NDSU must look to outside sources for its research dollars...
...Later, Sandy Grimes, another experienced officer in the Soviet division, joined the team. The assignment of three women--Vertefeuille, Smith and Grimes--reflected a sexist belief among the CIA's senior male executives that "little gray-haired old ladies," as one case officer put it, were best suited to perform the painstaking work of catching a mole. Computers might help, the prevailing wisdom went, but only the women had the patience and the skills to go through mountains of files and extract clues...
Microprocessors can be divided into two groups: CISC chips and RISC chips. The two architectures are fundamentally different approaches to processor performance, which is the measurement of how long it takes for the chip to perform a task using three factors: cycles per instruction, time per cycle and instructions per task...
...forms competition--in which competitors perform a memorized series of kicks, punches and blocks--club president and instructor, Jordan Schreiber took second place in the third- and fourth-degree men's black belt division. Freshman Victor Chen--who is a Crimson Editor--and senior Richard Chen placed second and third, respectively, in the camouflage and green belt division. Sophomore Richard Chiang placed third in the men's orange and yellow belt division...