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...Less surprising, alas, is how forgettable most of them are. It's probably too much to expect Broadway theater to reflect our current economic troubles, but there's something particularly rarefied and irrelevant about the plays arriving this spring. Most are short (waiting out an intermission is apparently too much to ask of an audience these days), slight and largely oblivious to much that is happening in the world outside the theater. Even the season's hit political satire, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, is one Administration - and what seems...
...first trip to Harvard Stadium yesterday didn’t quite go the way the Crimson (4-7, 1-2 Ivy) wanted. UVA pulled ahead early in the first half, 8-3, and despite second-half efforts by Harvard to close the gap, the Crimson came up short in a 13-9 defeat. “UVA was the second-straight top-10 team to come here and battle with us on our turf,” sophomore Samantha McMahon said. “From the loss to Penn on Saturday, we wanted to come out fast and hard showing...
Even with tri-captain Shannon Flynn on top of her game, tallying a career-high four points on three goals and an assist, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team came up short against Ivy leader Penn. The Crimson suffered an 18-9 loss to the No. 3 Quakers (10-0, 4-0 Ivy) on Saturday at Harvard Stadium. The loss is Harvard’s second league defeat, while Penn remains undefeated in both in conference play and overall. “It was encouraging that Penn is the No. 3 team in the country and we were...
...showcase on the world circuit of mega events," says John R. Gold, professor of social sciences and law at Britain's Oxford Brookes University, and co-author of Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012. He adds, "Even to be on the short-list is a major achievement - it puts you right up there with the world's major cities." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
...Tianyu is not short on natural history. In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu...