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...This was a quirky game,” Offsay said. “Iona has a shallow pool that we’re not accustomed to playing...
Indeed, the four-foot shallow end introduced an extra element to deter Harvard, creating limitations as to how the players could compete while standing. In effect, the rules had changed, and the Gaels were able to use that to their advantage. The Crimson’s play was further restricted as the pool was only 25 yards long instead of the traditional 30 meters...
...island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once the property of Nazi Germany - have lost their casings, leached into the sea and been caught in fishing nets. "In the Baltic," says Commander K.M. Jorgensen of the Danish navy in Bornholm, "the shells were dumped...
...Which strand of gossip is true? The townspeople want to know - or do they? As long as the matter is in doubt, they can keep nattering and give their shallow lives the semblance of drama. They want to believe the husband, because he speaks with such fiery protectiveness. They want to believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic...
...village of Herto, in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia, is surrounded by sparse patches of dry, scrubby vegetation, barely enough to sustain the sheep, cattle and goat herds of the seminomadic Afar people who live there. But 160,000 years ago, conditions were far different: a shallow lake sat here, teeming with hippos, crocodiles and catfish. The lush grasslands that surrounded its pebble-strewn shores were filled with lions, zebras and antelopes as well as another creature, which traveled on two legs rather than four. Our distant ancestors had walked the earth for millions of years by this time...