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Your best pick-up line: “Nice bum where you from, nice boobies where you going”—Kyle Richter...
...just a noise like an underground explosion. The wave came almost instantaneously. Everything that was standing is flattened.' DOROTHY PARKINSON, resident of the Solomon Islands, where a tsunami, triggered by an offshore earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed over two dozen people and forced thousands to flee their homes
Remoteness, now so often a blessing, has come to be a curse for Solomon Islanders living near Gizo, in the country's distant Western Province. The April 2 earthquake, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, and the ensuing wall of water that swept away anything in its path as it reached land, have left a quarter of the area's population without a home. Unlike in Asia's 2004 tsunami, the water has not receded, adding to the locals' distress...
...Richter also showed that he was susceptible to breakdowns, allowing 10 goals in a crucial weekend set against Brown and Yale. The scoring binge cost the rookie the starting job, as Tobe took over between the pipes the following weekend and stayed there for the remainder of the season...
...There may be just as little competition at the position next season, as Richter seems to be the leading candidate to man the pipes. Tobe is graduating, and the other two goaltenders currently on the Harvard roster, sophomore Mike Coskren and freshman John Riley, have just two minutes and one save between them...