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Repeating as champion is a difficult task—especially when everyone expects you to do it. Though the Harvard men’s volleyball team came into 2006 as favorites to win the reformed Hay Division after capturing the Sweeney Division in the spring of 2005, a spate of injuries and a slow start resulted in a disappointing fourth-place finish for the Crimson. Junior Dave Fitz, Harvard’s only setter with significant collegiate playing experience, suffered an ankle bone bruise on the opening weekend of the season and missed five weeks. Coupled with co-captain Seamus...
...Barbaro was lowered into a pool of water for about an hour Raft keeps horse dry 3 Once he was fully awake, Barbaro was hoisted from the pool and taken by monorail to a recovery area. He'll be confined to his stall for several months Sources: Corinne Sweeney, DVM, New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals; Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, Vol. 1 ; Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo; Animal Painting and Anatomy, by W. Frank Calderon (Dover, 1975) Graphic for TIME by Ed Gabel; reported by Kristina Dell
Still, there is no proof that horses bred for speed are more injury prone. Are today's Thoroughbreds more fragile? "Absolutely not," says Widener director Dr. Corinne Sweeney. Owners do periodically outcross, bringing in new breeding partners to freshen the gene pool. But that is merely an effort to boost performance, not build a sturdier animal...
...Welcome to the Aboriginal art market in 2006. Sweeney talks of cases where ailing artists are flown by dealers to sweatshops as far away as Melbourne: "Now if that's an 80-year-old woman, you don't have to think too hard about what's wrong with this picture." After a fact-finding trip to Central Australia earlier this month, Arts Minister Kemp acknowledged the need to protect arts centers from such practices. "The art centers are the life blood of the community," says Klingender. "They are obviously key to documenting and authenticating works-which is crucially important...
...with the best work being sourced from the community art centers where provenance was assured. But rogue dealers wanted a piece of the action, approaching in-demand artists direct. "Some artists I'm convinced will never paint enough paintings to satisfy the number of people who want them," says Sweeney. "So you've got something that's just exploded...