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Anyone claiming the Harvard-Yale rivalry is overstated needed only to look at the line of students in Loker Commons yesterday, poised to spill their blood for a Harvard victory—literally...
...weep: turns out that Harvard students are not all cynical, sleep-deprived depressives, and if they are, they’re coming out in big numbers to try to get better. Turns out quite a few of us would rather cultivate our self-esteem and spirituality than spill tears over textbooks at 4 a.m. The proof is in the pudding, it seems—the mental health crisis is taking care of itself...
...side Shaun White, nicknamed the "Flying Tomato" for the long red locks that spill through his helmet, seems almost certain to win gold. A child prodigy so savvy on a board that he could outrace adults while riding backwards, White, 19, finished first in all five Olympic qualifiers. "The only person who can beat Shaun is Shaun," says Rene Hansen, team director for Burton Snowboards, a top U.S. manufacturer. Like the wunderkinds to which he is compared- Tiger Woods, LeBron James- White views life as a constant competition, whether it's one-upping a fellow boarder?s tricks, or matching...
...offshore regasification plant the size of three football fields off the coast of Oxnard, Calif., but opposition is mounting. Activists raise concerns about pollution and potential harm to wildlife from such a large industrial operation. A spokeswoman for BHP says the LNG industry has never had a major spill (although an explosion occurred at an LNG production plant in Algeria...
...deep-down hatred" honed by his experiences in an Egyptian prison. Coleman believes the Egyptian contingent of al-Qaeda demonstrated a bloodlust unusual even among the committed jihadists. Many graduates of Qaeda camps had no qualms about carrying out bombings, but few matched the Egyptians' readiness to spill blood up close, through shootings and stabbings. "The Egyptians were always more doers than talkers," says Coleman. "They were capable of extraordinary violence which the other people in al Qaeda weren't capable of, necessarily...