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...other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran and the seven Arab states that border on the gulf belatedly decided to meet in Kuwait to search for a solution to the problem, but the politics...
...that it wasn't close call, though. A scoring spree by UNH's Chad Doe wiped out a four-goal first-half lead. And the Crimson suffered another long scoring drought--24:55, stretching from the second to the fourth quarter. But a gift goal by Harvard's Peter Follows brought the Crimson back to life, and the hosts held off late Wildcat pressure to preserve...
...Celtics played without forward Larry Bird, who was left home with a groin injury. They went on a scoring spree in the third quarter behind the shooting of Kevin McHale and Gerald Henderson to wipe out an early 15-point Detroit lead and pull in front momentarily...
...heels of one of its biggest victories ever--a stunning 11-4 thrashing of Penn the first weekend of vacation--the Harvard women's lacrosse team was riding high as it headed into its spring spree through the East...
...civil rights group also says the men were under police surveillance for weeks before the crime spree began, and that the trial which ended in a life sentence was highlighted by police perjury and coaching of witnesses by the prosecutor. Public contribution to a special fund will help defray the cost of defending the men (Williams is about to be tried), and assist in the fight to overturn Geter's sentence...