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...Rachel Dry, FM chair and observer: It was pretty funny how Summers, a middle-aged man, looked so much sharper, fitter and better than the 20-year-olds. Apparently he’d just been to tennis camp. The only camp Mathis had spent any time at recently was, I don’t know, Camp 16-Ounce Budweiser. He didn’t shave, and I’m not even going to mention the sweat. Wasserstein’s socks didn’t match, and I think his collared shirt was child-sized. Also, I don?...
...We’d been kind of knocking on the door for the whole game,” said junior shortstop Rachel Goldberg. “It was a matter of upping the intensity level a little bit to get things to fall...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
Novel concepts are certainly needed, especially for baby boomers who, like Rachel, 60, and Tom, 61, are part of the "sandwich generation"--those with older, sometimes declining parents on one side and their own children and grandchildren on the other. "There is extraordinary stress in so many ways on today's baby boomers who are caught in the middle and have their own families, marriages and jobs to maintain," says Suzanne Mintz, president and co-founder of the National Family Caregivers Association, an educational and advocacy organization in Kensington, Md. Says Gary Barg, editor of the magazine Today's Caregiver...
Junior Sara Williamson and junior Rachel Goldberg led the way for Harvard, knocking in three runs each. Goldberg smacked two home runs in the game, and ended the Dragons’ long day with a sharp defensive stop at shortstop to record the last...