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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talent, Harvard's future looks bright. Ethan Berkowitz, a promising freshman from San Francisco, skippered in the "470" National Championships, placed second in the "470" Pacific Coast Championships, and crewed in the Rhodes 19 Nationals for a third-place finish. Freshman Enrique Adsuan was at the helm of a Sunfish in the 1978 World Championships and crewed in Lightnings for his home country of Puerto Rico in the Pan-American Games. Finally Brian Keane, also a freshman, sailed a Laser in the National Sports Festival, where he picked up a silver and a bronze medal. He also won the North...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: They're Makin' Waves in the Charles | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...Sunfish" are wolfing down peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The "Hawks" have already devoured the main course and are biting into fudge brownies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Retreat for the Troubled | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...youngsters are assigned to groups ("Otters," "Chipmunks," "Sunfish") that meet each morning to plan the day's agenda. There, explains Leichtman, the kids "learn reciprocity, patience, negotiation, compromise." They also get peer support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Retreat for the Troubled | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...prototype agricultural "ark," a self-sufficient food-producing complex involving greenhouses, fish ponds, solar heaters and a windmill. The odd layout is clustered around three greenhouse-covered ponds built on an incline. The lowest pond contains a variety of edible fish, mostly the tasty tropical tilapia (somewhat like the sunfish). Pumped by the windmill, the water from this pond is passed through a solar heater, then circulated through a bed of crushed, bacteria-laden shells in the topmost pond. The bacteria not only detoxify the fish wastes but convert the ammonia in them to nitrites and nitrates, which are used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Alchemists | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Many of the summer weekends of their courtship they spent at the Cox home, Ann-How-Ten, at Westhampton Beach. "You can hang loose there," according to Tricia. The one time she tried to sail Ed's Sunfish by herself, she capsized. Ed rescued her. On visits to Cambridge, Tricia ate with Eddie at local restaurants or at his law school club, Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Simple Spectacular at the White House | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

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