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Start with an offense that Caples predicts will surpass last year's total of 32 goals in 19 games...
With all of Harvard's starters returning and a strong freshman class, the 1997 campaign promises an opportunity to surpass last season's accomplishment and win the school's first-ever Ivy title...
...JICHUAN, who runs China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, unwrapped a whopper: the nation has 100 million phone lines, second only to the U.S. Just two years ago, officials said they hoped to hit 50 million phone lines by the year 2000. Now they're expecting to surpass the U.S.'s 160 million as the millennium rolls in. This is especially remarkable progress, given where the Chinese started. As recently as 1985, for example, the eastern city of Nanjing had just four nonbusiness phone lines. And the 100 million lines are really just the start: the plan calls...
...Meyer repeats under his breath, over and over, "No biting, no biting, no biting..." The object of his mantra gapes below us--a foot-wide crescent studded with hundreds of razor-sharp, serrated, half-inch-long triangular teeth. This fish is only half-grown--an adult tiger shark can surpass 14 ft. in length--but it could easily take off a hand or an arm, or a chunk of torso you wouldn't want to try and live without...
Feaster's career achievements are nothing short of astounding. She is one of only four players to surpass the 1000-point and 500-rebound plateaus in their Harvard careers, and she accomplished the feat as a mere junior, reaching the latter mark during her sophomore campaign...