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...done more harm than good during its nearly four-month tour. The area where the ship was sailing is home to about 34 cetacean species, of which seven are fragile marine-mammal species, like the critically endangered Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin that lives along a 60-mile (100 km) stretch of Taiwan's west coast. "Seismic airguns are very loud, and under certain circumstances they can cause actual physical damage," says Rose. "When a species such as the humpback dolphin is already facing many threats and is hovering on the brink of extinction, adding to their risks by subjecting them...
...teams jostled for the lead, tying nine times throughout the third. Down the stretch, a haymaker from sophomore Sandra Lynne Fryhofer gave Harvard a promising 20-19 lead. But a series of Crimson errors provided the Big Green with the opportunity to take the lead and run with it to a 25-22 victory...
...late 2008 as the credit crunch paralyzed global financial markets. Gaming revenues sank and casinos laid off staff. Sheldon Adelson, chairman of casino operator Las Vegas Sands, was forced to halt his $12 billion plan to build an Asian version of the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of reclaimed land called Cotai due to financing woes. The boomtown went bust...
...enough is being done by the artists of today. I don't think that they're going out there. I was away for nearly four months touring around India and Burma. Today they might fly out and do an odd concert or two, but they're not doing a stretch of entertaining and meeting the boys and mingling with them and talking to them, which is very important. The troops don't just want to be entertained. They want to talk to people who've just come from home...
...large chunk of Harvard’s offense throughout the night, leading the Crimson with 13 kills–most of which hit the ground before the Crusaders could react.Although Holy Cross spent much of the second frame in a deficit, the Crusaders crept up down the stretch and eventually forced a tie at 24-24. Harvard went up on the ensuing point, but Holy Cross utilized a 3-0 run to take the set.“We didn’t necessary play in our system towards the end of the game,” Comrie said...