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...clear indication of a complete defensive effort is the number of penalty corners allowed by a team. While garnering sixteen penalty corners against the twelfth- ranked defense in the nation, Harvard only gave up two corners to California. In fact, the Crimson did not give up itsfirst penalty corner of the match until the 56th minute of the game, something rarely seen in a match of two high-caliber teams...
...government providing a shield - from both competitors and economic downturns - the richest in the land grow ever richer. Silvio Berlusconi comes first to most minds, having multiplied his real-estate earnings into unprecedented wealth in the 1980s after a sweet government deal helped him launch his private media empire. Sixteen months after he moved into the Prime Minister's office, Berlusconi quietly remains Italy's wealthiest man. But long before Berlusconi joined the political fray, Giovanni Agnelli, the patriarch of the Fiat car dynasty, was a subtler symbol of Italy's unique brand of state-stewarded capitalism. Praised around...
...votes are in, and sixteen finalists for the 2003 Harvard Class Marshals have been selected by their peers from a list of 68 candidates in an election that was marked by unusually heavy campaigning...
...Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. ban on such shipments. Until the sinking, there had never been a death among sailors or smugglers. That changed on Nov. 18, when the 200-ft. Samra sank at 4 a.m. in 10-ft. seas, drowning the two sailors and four Iraqis. Sixteen were rescued, including six U.S. sailors. The leaking vessel, owned by a United Arab Emirates shipper, was built to transport grain but secretly carried four large tanks inside its cargo hold for smuggling oil. The Navy's first mistake was to underestimate the amount of oil on board, which made...
Technologist Eric Drexler envisioned a future in which machines far smaller than dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler's book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls...