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Though Black Friday in Harvard Square lacked the typical 5 a.m. rush of shoppers searching for dramatically slashed price tags, dispersed sales for smaller items did draw some bargain hunters to local storefronts...
Outshooting Harvard, 15-10, in the first frame, Dartmouth got the edge at the outset with a two-goal lead, scoring twice on rushes. Fleming launched a wrist shot after taking it up the right side, sending the puck past Crimson netminder Ryan Carroll at 9:58 for his first goal of the game. Dartmouth winger Dustin Walsh followed up with a goal at the end of the period, capitalizing on another outnumbered rush to double the lead...
...term Black Friday itself was originally used to describe something else entirely - the Sept. 24, 1864, stock-market panic set off by plunging gold prices. Newspapers in Philadelphia reappropriated the phrase in the late 1960s, using it to describe the rush of crowds at stores. The justification came later, tied to accounting balance sheets where black ink would represent a profit. Many see Black Friday as the day retailers go into the black or show a profit for the first time in a given year. The term stuck and spread, and by the 1990s Black Friday became an unofficial retail...
...which is why in this year's mad present-buying rush, I'm not celebrating the notion that I get to pay less. I'd rather have the sorts of things that only come with a higher price...
...worried that it could spark the destruction of the area's pristine forests because of gold found in rivers. There are already more than 100 requests for mining concessions around Quince Mil (five have been formally granted) and with gold prices above $1,000 an ounce a gold rush is already on in the nearby Madre de Dios state. Samanez is hoping the state creates a protected in nearby forests that would curb mining, logging and cattle farming. (See more about Peru...