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...pitching staff threw too many balls outside the strike zone, as well as too far into it. Eventually the team’s bats returned to Earth and its flaws proved too numerous. The Crimson blew any chance it had at the Ivy League title by losing four-straight games to Brown two weekends ago. But Harvard proved its resilient character this past weekend against the Rolfe Division’s best. The Crimson bounced back from Game 1 blowouts to beat Dartmouth in the nightcaps of each doubleheader. The Crimson capped off its season by coming back from...
Then-sophomore J.P. O’Connor finished sixth in the country that year, marking Harvard’s third straight season with an All-American competitor. The squad only improved this season, with sophomore Corey Jantzen and Caputo joining him among the country’s elite. All three wrestlers hovered in the top 10 for their weight class all season en route to the NCAA championships, with Caputo taking All-American honors for an eighth place finish...
...viruses replicate in pigs, they pick up the viral machinery that gives more selective flu strains the power to spread to other mammals, like us. That's what makes pigs such potent mixing bowls for flu. The roundabout bird-pig-human route may be less common than the straight bird-human jump, but it may be more problematic. Strains of avian flu, like the much-feared H5N1, can infect individual humans, but they can't make the person-to-person leap. Avian flu that is passed through the pig's mammalian system, however, can be passed readily among humans. (Read...
...first three years, she drove the diapers around herself and learned to use a pallet jack; today she has two full-time employees and buys 250,000 diapers at a time straight from a manufacturer. She has yet to find any makers who will give them to her free. Goldblum, who works on the project full time but does not draw a salary, has talked to some 50 people about starting diaper banks. "We know of six who have taken the next step," she says...
SEAL training is a grueling ordeal: its core six-month course includes a "hell week" in which waterlogged recruits undergo five straight days of push-ups, running and advanced exercises--like learning to swim with their hands and feet tied--on a total of four hours of sleep. The Navy has more than 330,000 active sailors but only about 2,000 SEALs. The small fraction of recruits who pass training, as Phillips knows, are excellent shots...