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...congregate in Hugh Town's harbor to watch or take part. The Scillys also have one of the world's greatest concentrations of shipwrecks per square mile. Noteworthy wrecks include The Eagle, which went down just west of St. Agnes in 1707, and the anemone-covered King Cadwallen, which sank in 1906. Good underwater visibility ensures excellent scuba diving (www.scillydiving.com). For an island history lesson, try the Star Castle Hotel on St Mary's, tel: (44-1720) 422317; www.star-castle.co.uk. Dating from 1593 and shaped like an eight-pointed star, it has a dry moat, ramparts and a bar that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retreat! | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

Princeton would not go quietly, however, as Venable sank four consecutive free throws to pull his team within two, 56-54, with 26 seconds remaining...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GAME OF THE YEAR, RUNNER-UP: Men's Basketball 61, Princeton 57 | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...start of the season, it seemed as though bringing in coach Erik Farrar—former head coach at Brown—had not made a difference. The Crimson sank to a 2-4 record and took home a disappointing eighth place—though the two team captains earned all-tournament honors—at September’s ECAC Tournament...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Men's Water Polo | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Dartmouth sank three more, including another from Sanborn, before Harvard answered. Junior midfielder Allie Kaveney struck home on an assist from freshman midfielder Natalie Curtis with 10:45 left in the first to put the Crimson on the scoreboard...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stumbles Against Big Green | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Home Again | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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