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...Burgundy can put most of the blame for this year's price panic on the vagaries of the weather. The summer, among the coldest and wettest in memory, was a cruel one for the Pinot grapes of the Côte d'Or, the narrow Burgundy slope that produces some of the world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks...
Playing on a field that resembled a ski slope more than a soccer field, Harvard's undefeated women's soccer team braved the conditions and won an easy 4-0 victory over Princeton in Princeton Saturday...
Since the early talk about the crunch of the 1980s, the headlines have been full of seemingly good news about oil. Exploratory drilling activity has risen by 30% since the 1973 embargo. In the past year or so, oil has begun to flow from Alaska's North Slope, North Sea production has increased, and promising indications of oil and natural gas have been found in the Baltimore Canyon off the U.S.'s East Coast. Oil companies have also been exploring what are thought to be big deposits along China's coast. And in Venezuela, development is continuing...
...tunnel heads north under Mass Ave, it will gradually slope from its Harvard Square depth of 20 feet below street level to more than 100 feet below Porter Square, passing through bedrock much...
Just as certainly, the wilderness camper who beds down in grizzly-bear country is not expecting wall-to-wall safety. Yet skiers who fall have tried to hold slope owners liable for their injuries (a verdict awarding $1.5 million to a Vermont skier was upheld by the State Supreme Court), and outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim...