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...Knights dropped Game 1, 5-1. It was an ugly affair, with the teams combining for 71 penalty minutes between them. Game 2 wasn’t much prettier; there were 48 minutes of box time and the game went back-and-forth until Clarkson’s Mike Sullivan scored an unassisted power play goal two-and-a-half minutes into the third...
When this Hilles is gone, replaced by a prettier, more efficient version of itself—a sort of Stepford Hilles—there will be precious few places like it left on campus. I realize, of course, that retaining a shrine to impracticality is—well—impractical. But I had long thought of Hilles as a refuge among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates?...
...haven’t seen a goal like that for a long time,” junior center Brendan Bernakevitch said. “That was straight-up—got the [deke] and put it top-shelf. You can’t ask for a prettier goal...
...Java Log. Made from used coffee grounds, it boasts a higher heat density than real wood, so it can burn hotter and last longer. When TIME compared the Java Log to a Duraflame (a log made of sawdust and wax), the Java Log ignited more quickly and produced taller, prettier flames. But does it make your house smell like a Starbucks store? Not to our nose...
...every year to flee famine and oppression. The vast majority are women. Although many men and children come for short stints of begging or manual labor before returning home with full bellies and a bit of cash, most North Korean women come to China for new lives. The younger, prettier ones often end up at the euphemistically named "beauty salons." But thousands more are sold by human traffickers as wives to Chinese men who are either too poor to afford a dowry or are considered undesirable to Chinese women because they are old, divorced or disabled. An ethnic-Korean...