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...touching the wall in 47.13 and 50.32, respectively.“I accomplished what I needed to accomplish based on what my coach told me for today,” Diekema said. “I was pretty happy with how I swam.”There was one rough patch disrupting Harvard’s day of smooth sailing, however. In the 1000-yard freestyle event, two of the Crimson’s top swimmers were disqualified for ending in the wrong lane. Meyer and senior Eric Lynch, who posted times good enough to claim the top-two spots...
...finished with 16 saves.The win, Harvard’s first against a ranked team this season, sends the team home for winter break with a restored sense of confidence.“I think this was huge for our team. We’ve been having kind of a rough start here,” Buesser said. “I think this is really going to set a tone for the new year.”“Every win is a big one,” Stone said. We had a pretty tough schedule from the beginning...
...Rough Ride. FlightStats.com just released its travel report card for the holidays, showing that nearly 8,800 flights were canceled from Dec. 18-28, 2008. With bad weather and capacity cuts, some passengers had to wait two to three days to get on the next available flight. For those who did manage to take off, less than half their flights arrived on time. Good thing Santa wasn't relying on frequent-flyer miles to deliver his goodies...
...lived through currency devaluations, and they are fraught with anxieties," says Hans Martens, chief executive of the European Policy Centre. "But the way the euro coped with the financial crisis was absolutely great. You have a big island of stability, with small nations protected when the big waves became rough...
...going global. Seattle-based 3Tier is steadily mapping the solar, wind and hydro power potential of the entire planet, with its REmapping the World initiative. Utilities and businesses can use the 3Tier website to prospect for the best locations for wind power projects, while ordinary citizens can check the rough solar potential of their home address. What kind of dividends this will pay in an energy hungry, globally warming world is hard to say, but if San Francisco is any indication, they could be big ones...