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After letting a close game slip away the night before, the Harvard women’s basketball team wasn’t about to let it happen again. Still shaking off a disappointing loss at Brown on Friday night, the Crimson recovered to hold off an aggressive Yale team, taking the lead for good with two minutes to play in the first half and holding on for a 59-54 win at New Haven. In the first half, Harvard struggled against Yale’s stiff defense. The Elis applied aggressive ball pressure and disciplined help-side rotation...
...second is that ice on the glaciers' surfaces has melted at a record rate in two of the past four years. "Some of that water," says Dowdeswell, "presumably percolates down through crevasses," lubricating the soft sediments at the base of the glaciers and allowing the huge ice floes to slip more quickly...
...case in point is GPS navigation: I tested ALK's CoPilot Live 6 for Smartphones, which comes with a Bluetooth GPS receiver that sits on your dashboard. You slip a MiniSD card into the phone (annoyingly, under the battery) and after a quick software install, the program runs. It communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests...
...fourth and last game, the scores were tied at 7-7 and 8-8 before DiSesa pulled off the final two points to clinch the match.Despite never being seriously challenged for the victory, several Crimson players still let chances to win their individual matches slip away. In the longest match of the day at No. 7, John Kimmelrich of Penn was able to defeat Sheth in five games, even though Sheth once led by 8-7 in the fifth game. He would lose the final, 10-8.At No. 5, Gertler missed a chance to force a fifth game against Andrew Zimmerman...
...rights of women and their changing role in society have been a focus of TIME since the 1920s. More than 15 years ago, we even devoted an entire issue to the road ahead for women [Nov. 1, 1990]. In it we said, "Young women do not want to slip unnoticed into a man's world; they want that world to change and benefit from what women bring to it." Read more at timearchive.com/collections