Word: rivering
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Ever wonder why so many students get up at 5 a.m. only to throw themselves at the mercy of the cold, polluted Charles River? The mysterious allure of rowing is the subject of Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing, a new book by Craig Lambert '69. However, a fully satisfactory answer to this question is not to be found in this book. Lambert sets out to make the ordinary extraordinary and winds up doing so in an ordinary way. The book is an autobiographical account of his rowing career, which he extends into life lessons...
...that we have introduced, at some expense, a morning shuttle service between the Quad and the River, and have improved afternoon and early evening service, use of the taxi vouchers is for the most part no longer justified," Bean said in the memo...
...Checker Cab vouchers will be available for use by athletes only in extraordinary circumstances that require them, in the judgement of their coaches, to travel between the Quad and the River at times not covered by University shuttles...
Workout: Coach Parker has the crew paddle through as much of the Charles as humanly possible: boathouse to the Science Museum, then up river to Watertown and back to the start for a grueling total of 17 miles. Translation: 1 1/2 hours of steady pain. Nice views... but is it worth it? Says Captain Henry G. Nuzum '99 of the infamous tour: "You don't even notice the scenery after about three minutes... my butt was real sore afterwards...
...that old moon river again. Not content with finding ice on our very own Luna, scientists unveiled evidence in the journal Nature Thursday of entire underground oceans on no less than two of Jupiter's moons. Europa and Callisto were long suspected to bear icy crusts, but at a decidely chilly 483 million miles from the Sun, nobody expected these rocks to be anywhere near tropical enough for the liquid stuff. "If we find out four and a half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt...