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Ever since the Joads left Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1939 and set out for California, people have been flocking to the most populous state in the nation for what seems to have been a limitless pool of jobs. As Steinbeck's characters discovered the employment boom in California is often less spectacular than migrant's have been led to believe...
...eight-minute game. We wanted to win really bad.”Closing out the game on a high note, the Crimson held the Bison to a single goal in the fourth quarter, while putting three in the net on the other end of the pool. The players attributed the victory to a high level of teamwork and an increased level of intensity and passion after losing to the Bison last week.“We were going all-out all four quarters,” co-captain Devon MacLaughlin said. “We played a great game...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team lost its first Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship in three years this past weekend, coming in second place to Navy at the Crimson’s home Blodgett Pool. Harvard, who remained in second for all three days of the contest, finished with a score of 512.5 to the first-place Midshipmen’s 703.5. Although Navy appeared to have decisively sunk the Crimson’s battleship during this meet, ECACs are a bit of a diamond in the rough—this three-day event is much more...
...work developing therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a skin cancer that kills thousands of Americans each year. The award—the Established Investigator Grant—will support Harlow’s research for two years. Harlow was one of five to be selected from an applicant pool of 60 for this award after a scientific advisory committee looked over all the proposals and chose the most promising ones, according to the Tim Turnham, the foundation’s executive director. “Our goal in funding is to find new treatments that will help patients live longer...
...obvious that Borgo Tranquillo is different from the typical Italian country getaway from the moment the artfully rusted gate glides open onto a winding white-gravel driveway. It's the awesome, modern infinity pool that makes an immediate impression: a huge pale oblong of water, framed at one end by lavender bushes and olive trees. The view beyond takes in undulating fields, woods, hilltop churches and the distant peaks of the Appennines. Beside the pool is an ultra-contemporary pavilion with weathered-steel spiral staircase, leather sofas, library, espresso and ice machines, sauna and steam room. (See 10 things...