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...Washington, irritated by Chen's provocative stance toward Beijing, told him that only Hawaii or Anchorage, Alaska, were open to him. Affronted, Chen decided not to landed in the U.S. at all, taking instead a marathon route via Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam to Latin America. Washington appeared willing to slight Chen to placate Beijing, whose cooperation it needs on everything from reducing the U.S. trade deficit to reining in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran. Given China's growing clout, the world looks set to become an ever-smaller place for Taiwan
...something like that happened we’d have a guy ready to go.”...The first of Calvert’s three goals on Saturday struck the net with such force that it actually tore a hole in the goal, causing a slight delay in the game. Fittingly, Calvert holds the team-lead in points, having scored 38 on the season.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...other organisms that might have prevented such an explosion of fusarium. "The fusarium strains we found in the cave are extremely resistant to formaldehyde, unlike strains from elsewhere," says Pallot-Frossard. "It didn't come from outside, but had been there all along. All it needed was a slight modification in climate to take off." And take off it did. At first Godin's team sprayed the mold with an alcohol solution of Vitalub, a common ammonium disinfectant. But the fusarium appeared oblivious: scientists learned that it lived in diabolical symbiosis with a bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens, which was degrading...
...labs every day and there’s no easy way to deal with that.” Scot M. Miller ’07, a REP captain, added that smaller universities often have other aids to recycling efforts. “We are at a slight disadvantage, as some smaller facilities like Middlebury have trash processing facilities where they can separate out the recyclables after people throw them away,” he said. “Our biggest challenge is convincing people to make the commitment to recycle.” Gogan agreed, saying that they hoped...
...rating as possible under the conditions. Harvard, however, quickly set to work on opening up the early stalemate, and the Crimson began a steady walk on Northeastern shortly after the settle into the first 500 meters. By the end of the first 500, Harvard had opened up a slight lead over Northeastern. A push across the 500-meter mark cushioned the Crimson’s advantage, and Harvard opened up an open-water advantage by 800 meters down.The rest of the course was a battle—not between Harvard and Northeastern, which fell out of any sort of contention...