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Morgalis, a Cincinnati native and transfer from Notre Dame, limited Columbia to one run on five hits in eight strong innings Friday, frustrating the Lions with a mix of pinpoint fastballs and devastating sliders. That performance came less than a week after Morgalis’ masterpiece—the first complete game shutout by a Harvard pitcher in more than a year—against Cornell in a 3-0 win April...
...military men is money. Bush wants to spend $10.2 billion on missile defense next year. The retired generals would rather see it spent securing the nation's nuclear weapons and materials and protecting ports and borders against terrorists armed with unconventional weapons. The U.S. military can already pinpoint missile launches, they noted, so any rogue state would be "risking annihilation from a devastating U.S. retaliatory strike" if it launched a missile strike from its territory or allowed terrorists to do so. That, they argued, is a better deterrent than a costly, unproved missile-defense system...
...Others pinpoint their distinguishing quality. “We all kind of do our own thing,” says Sigma Chi president Matthew B. Salzberg ’05. “But Sigma Chi is all about forming friendships, meeting people and building relationships...
...night. Spahr's task as an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is to collect reports of asteroids that might one day pass near Earth. On that Tuesday, he had been processing observations from an automated telescope in New Mexico when he noticed a pinpoint of light that might fit the profile. He calculated the object's orbit and, as usual, posted the information on the Minor Planet Center website for other astronomers to see. Then he went off to dinner with a friend...
...vast, utilitarian office where Hori and his team of engineers are forging the next-generation eco-car, there's little in the way of glamour. Here, innovation comes through team effort, and individual stars are hard to pinpoint. But Hori is no mere taskmaster. "He gives us the freedom to pursue our own ideas," says assistant manager Yohichi Sugiura, an engine expert...