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With the Crimson coming off its poorest season in six years--Harvard finished with a sub-.500 record (13-14-1) for the first time since 1984--Donato's job will not be an easy one. Butthe forward, who is known as a clutch player onthe ice and an outspoken leader in the lockerroom, is expected to be a loud and visible teamleader...
Things You Don't Want To Know: Harvard finished the season with a sub-.500 record for the first time since 1984...This year marks only the third time in the last decade that the Crimson hasn't had a 20-win season...Even after playing only half the season, Keven Melrose still finished second in the league in penalty minutes, five minutes behind RPI's Bruce Coles...Harvard spent the second-most time in the sin bin of any team in the league...
This technology, like much else portrayed in The Hunt for Red October, is authentic. The U.S. Navy has the capability to track Soviet submarines with just such precision, electronically gathering underwater sound waves through sonar (sound navigation and ranging). The movie's depiction of a Soviet sub that can run on a superquiet water-propulsion system is not yet a reality. However, Soviet subs have become markedly quieter in recent years (partly because of Soviet espionage on U.S., Japanese and Norwegian propeller technology, which has reduced the cavitation, or spewing of noisy bubbles, from the blades). By some estimates...
...improve U.S. subs' tracking ability, one option is to "go active" by electronically transmitting a "ping" that would locate a target when the sound waves bounce back from it. The problem: echoes from the ping would also disclose the location of the tracker, even if the ping were generated from a third source, such as a buoy towed behind the sub or dangled in the water by a helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying...