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...seen that we can hang with these teams,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “Seeing different styles of play from some teams, who have played a bunch more games than we have, helps tremendously.” CENTRAL MICHIGAN 1, HARVARD 0Despite a spectacular performance by pitcher Vertovez, the Crimson couldn’t get the bats going in a defensive struggle against the Chippewas on Saturday morning. “We definitely had a mental lull in this game,” Allard said. “Our effort wasn?...
...Even more meaningful than Tay’s spectacular performance on senior night, though, was the importance of the result. The Harvard women’s basketball team’s 91-57 demolition of Yale kept alive its hopes for a conference title, setting up a must-win matchup against league-leaders Dartmouth on Tuesday—the final day of the regular season...
...More probable and more spectacular will be what I have termed the human singularity. In our lifetimes, Asia will make untold investments in roads, rail, ports, sanitation, power, water, and schools. In a case of leapfrogging, it will build only the most modern incarnations of infrastructure: adopting nuclear power fast, building advanced sewer systems in the first place, and incorporating technology in its schools from day one. In a not-so-distant generational quantum leap, literally billions of well-fed, well-read, well-entertained, and well-capitalized young men and women will suddenly enter the matrix of humanity with heightened...
...Smarter tourists fly over the Pu'u 'O'o vent itself, which if you hit it right can be one of the most spectacular shows on earth. Check on the current flows with the U.S. National Park Service, www.nps.gov/havo, and then book a flight out of nearby Hilo with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, www.bluehawaiian.com. There's great accommodation at Hale Ohia, www.haleohia.com, a collection of antique cottages just outside the park. Go for a long hike, then soak in an outdoor Japanese furo tub under tsugi pines. You may have just seen volcanic hell, but you'll feel like...
...Joads left Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1939 and set out for California, people have been flocking to the most populous state in the nation for what seems to have been a limitless pool of jobs. As Steinbeck's characters discovered the employment boom in California is often less spectacular than migrant's have been led to believe...