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...more goal when it capitalized on a penalty corner. Junior midfielder Kristin Bannon took the corner and sent it to McVeigh who shoveled it off to freshman back Georgia McGillivray. McGillivray found Dickson on the left wing, just inside the circle, where the freshman fired a waist-high rocket past Crane. “The forwards really set the tone,” coach Sue Caples said. “They’re starting to really gel and get in tune with each other.” The Crimson finished the game with a decisive 16-5 edge...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Offense Catches Fire in Win | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Today's pirates pursue their prey with outboard motors instead of oars and tote rocket-propelled grenades instead of cutlasses. With upgraded equipment and loftier stakes - the group demanded $20 million in ransom for the Faina's return, a figure that reportedly plunged to $5 million on Oct. 1 - these 21st century buccaneers, like their peg-legged predecessors, are economic opportunists exploiting the largely unpatrolled waterways through which 90% of global trade flows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Pirates | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Bush EPA just walk away is shocking.' BARBARA BOXER, chair of the Senate's Environment Committee, saying the Environmental Protection Agency bowed to pressure from the Pentagon in its decision not to remove a toxic rocket-fuel ingredient found in the drinking water of nearly 400 sites in 35 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry up the lab components, though Johnson-Freese notes that if China want to launch a larger vehicle, like a space station, or send a manned flight to the moon, it needs to develop a heavy lift launch rocket, which could take up to a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Venture in Space | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Embassy Attacked A multipronged assault on the embassy in the capital, Sana'a, on Sept. 17 killed at least 16 people. No Americans were killed, security officials said, but Yemenis in line for visas, the assailants and Yemeni guards were among the dead. In addition to automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades being fired, a car bomb was detonated at the gates of the embassy. A State Department spokesman said the assault had "all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack," although a group called Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. The embassy has seen violence several times since 2002, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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