Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students accepted in this year's early round, 436 were women--making this the seventh year in a row in which the number of women admitted early has risen...
Princeton freshman Ali Couglin secured ECAC Rookie of the Week honors for the second week in a row. A Lincoln, Mass, native, Couglin scored four goals to lead her team in its impressive victory over league-leading Northeastern. It was her second hat trick of the burgeoning season...
...voice does not reach the audience with the strength it should, and it's hard to blame her. Outdoing an army of brass, wind, reeds, and percussion is no easy task, especially since the Agassiz has no pit; instead, the orchestra is crammed between the stage and the first row of seats. When intelligible, the Citizens of the Tower of London are at best satisfactory. Though their swinging and swaying could have been sharper and better choreographed, they looked incredibly happy doing it. The grim faced quartet of Yeomen, looking a bit ridiculous in their putty, bright red uniforms, function...
Then Olivia filled the space between us. The fellow in my row greeted her magnanimously, to say the least. Likewise, she was quite pleased to see her boyfriend. The couple couldn't keep off each other, despite his nasal sniffling. They were grabbing each other (and I'm not talking about hand-holding) and sucking each other's faces with vacuum power to rival the Dustbuster...
...astronomy. The telescope has already thrown Big Bang theorists a curve by suggesting that some stars in the universe are older than the universe itself. At the core of one galaxy it has found a black hole as massive as 3 billion suns. It has made scientists front-row spectators at the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the planet Jupiter. And it has begun to unravel the riddle of the brilliant beacons of cosmic light known as quasars. Go to any astronomy conference these days, and you'll find half the scientific papers are based on space-telescope...