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...history.After 114 minutes and 13 seconds, the Eagles’ Anna McDonald put a pass from teammate Kelli Stack into the back of the Crimson net, ending the epic contest in triple overtime.“It was a great hockey game,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “But there are no moral victories.”In the first period, the game hardly had the makings of a classic, as B.C. jumped out to a two-goal lead.Captain Deb Spillane found left wing Allie Thunstrom wide open for an easy score two minutes...
...There are no moral victories,” says Katey Stone, Harvard women’s hockey coach. There is only a 4-3, triple-overtime defeat at the hands of Boston College in the opening round of Boston’s hallowed Beanpot Tournament. There is only being rebuffed in trying to reclaim the trophy from the Golden Eagles, who snapped the Crimson’s string of seven straight tourney titles at Bright Hockey Center last February. And being consigned to the consolation game against lowly Northeastern, playing for third place for the first time since...
...bits of diamond--produced in a lab under extremely high pressure and temperature and used in cutting tools, optical equipment and lasers--are easy to generate. This type of production has become so routine that thousands of small plants all over China pour out synthetic diamonds suitable for cutting stone. Gem-quality diamonds of one carat or more, however, are trickier because at that size it's difficult to consistently produce diamonds of high quality, even in the controlled environment of a lab. But after a half-century of trial and error, that may be changing. Several diamondmaking companies...
Since it may be another decade before such medical applications of diamond become a reality, for now Apollo is using the same CVD process to produce gem-quality stones for the retail market. Just last year the company started selling rough-cut gems to a Boston jewelry retailer. It may prove to be a smart strategy until the industrial market matures; thanks to booming economies in China and India, retail sales of diamond jewelry have been surging for a decade. Analysts expect up to 20% annual growth in the diamond market in China alone. With current mine capacities, that translates...
...Their indignation was furious, but also a sort of abstraction, and mixed in it a fierce atmosphere of carnival, an electricity of freedom and breaking loose -- up out of nonentity into entity, a violent flowering of the heart, a burst of flame. A moment before, they had been hurling stones at a Volkswagen van that went veering and skittering off down the main street of Khan Yunis. So we were next in line for the politics of stones. The back window was half-open, and the boy with eyes like cracked ice thrust in his fluttering and clutching hand, like...