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...free throws to put the Tigers up eight with two and a half minutes remaining. Little did anyone in Lavietes know that a mauling was in the works.First came an innocent layup from senior captain Brad Unger. A laughably horrendous layup attempt by Princeton’s Marcus Schroeder sprung junior Evan Harris to life. Harris drained a basket to bring the lead within four. Hustling back to the other end to force a turnover, the fortuitous change in luck led to successive layups from underclassmen Kyle Fitzgerald and Jeremy Lin to send the game into overtime...
...initiative, half political engagement, Focus the Nation is a countrywide effort to put climate change front and center on American campuses - and enlist students as foot soldiers in political battles over global warming. The movement has grown massively since Goodstein launched it with his wife Chungin Chung; branches have sprung up on campuses around the country and prominent greens, like the sustainability guru Hunter Lovins and retired Sen. Gary Hart, are on its board. That rise culminated in a national teach-in event on Jan. 31, when teachers and students at over 1,500 campuses gathered to discuss global warming...
...Advocate has proven its tenacious staying power. Having weathered both time and numerous editorial changeovers, it seems likely that many new names will grace the Advocate’s masthead in years to come. This may not be the case for a generation of undergraduate magazines that has sprung to life in the past few years...
...epic fourth quarter that saw three lead changes and a heroic performance by Manning, the emotional rollercoaster the spectators in the room were riding was twisting and looping at full speed. After the Giants took the lead for the first time since their opening drive, a new hope sprung up in New York fans, while those backing New England seemed to realize for the first time that these Giants were a serious threat to the Patriots’ pursuit of a perfect season. After Brady engineered a drive that gave New England a 14-10 lead with 2:42 left...
...early 1980s, to 16.4 for every 1,000 married women age 15 and over, but 40% to 50% of first marriages still break up. In the spirit of American ingenuity that can find a way to make a buck out of even the worst situations, a cottage industry has sprung up to help people cope with and often celebrate this passage from one part of their lives to the next. "Once divorce gets so common, the human approach is to treat it like another aspect of life," says sociologist David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers...