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However, I find this seemingly dismal fate much more preferable than the other alternative for a Red Sox playoff team: getting swept. They are the only team to suffer a four-game sweep in the League Championship Series when it was the only barrier between the regular season and the World Series...
...recognized marine fisheries were overexploited or already depleted, and 44% more were at their limits of exploitation. Nontarget fish are swept up in the process. Dredges and trawls destroy habitats--Earle calls the invaders "bulldozer equivalents"--as they drag the ocean floor...
After a wave of financial aid increases swept America's top colleges, Congress got into the act yesterday in a big way, approving a bill that will make paying off student loans easier for college students and graduates nationwide--including Harvard students...
After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, Hurricane Georges swept through the Florida Keys, across the Gulf of Mexico and yesterday hit land again on the Gulf Coast...
Poirier, on one of his dives, picked up a signal on sonar just before having to surface. The next diver, Kent Gulliford, swept away some debris and found the cockpit voice recorder. The team was ecstatic, but soon learned that the black box, like the first one found, had not recorded the last six minutes of flight...