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...final tune-up for Harvard’s Ivy season, which starts today with a pair of contests at Columbia that were postponed from Saturday due to rain...
...went on the Chile trip. We slept in tents in the rain forest, and I got to hike over a mountain for, like, eight hours. I think the more of those experiences you can chalk up, the more of a fulfilled and enriched human being you're going...
...species, each of which has adapted in its way to life in a desert ecosystem. Couch's spadefoot toads can live underground for much of their lives, awaiting some moisture before they come up and breed. Saguaro cacti are able to suck up a ton of water from one rain shower and then do without more rain for a year. Sidewinder rattlesnakes move across dunes in a unique S-shaped motion that minimizes contact with the scorching sand...
Once a desert landscape has been despoiled, it recovers slowly, if at all. "Where you have rain, things grow back in 20 or 30 years. In the desert Southwest, it takes centuries," says Huckelberry, an engineer by training. Pima County, he is quick to point out, is not antigrowth--far from it. Every year for the past decade, the population has grown by 15,000 souls and covered 4,500 acres of desert in new housing. The newspapers are flush with property advertisements, the roads out of town dotted with signs for new developments with names like Coyote Creek...
...midst of the second straight day of pouring rain, Harvard earned the doubles point on the strength of victories from the Crimson’s first and second doubles teams. Bergman and Lingman, the Crimson’s top-ranked pair, toppled their opponents 8-6, while Durkin and Anderson, the number two duo, shut out the Jaguars 8-0. In the third slot, Wang and Mukundan fell...