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...theory, this seems like an excellent idea, with the potential to ease the burden on the environment from meat production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve human health. In practice, however, the chances of anyone actually winning the prize seem slim. "No one has yet produced [in vitro meat]. No one has succeeded in coming close," says Dr. Stig Omholt, director of Norway's Centre for Integrative Genetics and chair of the In Vitro Meat Consortium, which held its first symposium this month. Still, Omholt says, "it seems possible to develop this technology...
...Saturday with seven total wins. Three boats finished the day of races undefeated and the varsity eight and novice eight claimed their first wins of the season.The second varsity boat, with a flair for the dramatic, notched another come-from-behind win in the morning and pulled out a slim win in the afternoon.“The racing this weekend was very successful, we were very excited for our victories across the board,” co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker said.The Challenge featured two sets of races, morning and afternoon, and hosted six programs including the Black...
...into every weekend and every game thinking we should win every time,” senior Shawn Haviland said. “Our backs are against the wall. Anything other than four wins [against Brown] would be disappointing.”Considering the squad has a slim chance of accomplishing its goal of winning the Ivy League, it is a bit ironic that the Crimson has finally found its stride. In the last four contests, Harvard has scored an average of 8.25 runs per game. The team, however, dropped two of those games—one loss came from...
Wisps of evaporating water rise from the dark green Amazon rainforest as an Ecuadorian military helicopter swerves along the San Miguel River. Each day, slim boats with outboard motors ferry dozens of people between the hamlets of Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador, and Teteye, Colombia, across the brown and winding border waterway. Most are doing business or visiting relatives. But this year boatmen are increasingly carrying Ecuadorian mourners to retrieve the bodies of loved ones. Most, they say, were killed by Colombian troops because they were suspected of aiding the Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC...
...assisting Caldwell, sophomore attacker Thomas Muldoon tacked on an insurance tally during a man-up opportunity with 2:14 remaining.In a last ditch effort, with eleven seconds on the clock, Gibbons scored an unassisted goal, his fourth score of the day and the tenth of his college career, to slim the margin to one. Time ran out before the Crimson got a chance to knot the score again.“It’s tough,” Gibbons said. “We came close. A couple of things didn’t go our way?...