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...lightweights enjoyed similar success, also dominating the opposition and sweeping their first four regattas. The freshman eight was particularly impressive during this stretch, winning its races by convincing margins...
...come together collectively…to find a way out of the hole,” Biega said. “A lot of times, teams tend to become more individualistic and become more frustrated and nervous on the ice. The way you come out of a difficult stretch is getting more as a team and playing more at ease.” While Harvard was able to reach a high level of play throughout the run-up to the ECAC tournament, the Crimson ultimately fell to bottom-ranked Brown in two low-scoring games in the first round...
...supermarket, uniformed workers are stacking pineapples into neat rows across from bundles of fresh mustard greens, tamarind pods and nopalitos - sliced cactus ears common in Mexican dishes. In much of the country, Farmers Best Market would not be an extraordinary sight. But here on 47th Street, a gritty stretch of Chicago's South Side flush with Golden Arches and purveyors of Colt 45 Malt Liquor, the store is an oasis. It's also raising an intriguing proposition: Can an inner-city supermarket profitably specialize in fresh produce and meats - and, ultimately, be a model solution to urban America's health...
Polonsky also points out what he deems faulty, nonanalogous logic sometimes used by advocates for shorter shifts, who liken residents' work regulations to those for commercial pilots, who are similarly prohibited from flying more than a maximum number of hours in a stretch. "If you think of what is really proposed [by the IOM], it is like having a pilot switching over in midflight or asking him to switch over as he's about to land," he says. "'Well, your time is up, it's time for someone else to take over...
...Hardest hit has been Las Vegas Sands, whose chairman, Sheldon Adelson, envisioned transforming a stretch of reclaimed Macau land called Cotai into a new Las Vegas Strip with a $12-billion development of hotels and casinos. He launched the effort in 2007 with the opening of a 3,000-room Venetian hotel similar to his flagship Las Vegas property. But last year Adelson struggled to find financing for the project. Construction on new hotels was suspended in November, and the company recently said it would cut as many as 4,000 workers from its Macau operations. Late last year...