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...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team dominated the board, winning 14 of 16 events in Friday’s meet against Brown.The Crimson, which had not hit the water in three weeks (5-1, 3-1 Ivy), grabbed the lead early in the day and ended with a 194–104 victory against the Bears (3-3, 2-2 Ivy).“It was a little challenging because exams and reading period certainly takes its toll,” sophomore Geoff Rathgeber said. “I think we maintained our focus for most...
...that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry, 60, tried to push away the 4-m-long crocodile with an oar, but it seized his arm, capsizing the canoe. Glenda was able to swim to the bank, but her husband vanished without trace...
Stanley, a dentist, and Beatrice, an office manager at his practice, are both 65. They swim, read and take long walks on the beach during their spa visits--and increasingly they find themselves bumping into other couples their age and younger. It's no coincidence: the number of baby-boomer couples taking spa-oriented vacations accounts for 1 of every 3 spa-goers, up from 1 in 5 just five years ago, according to industry estimates. The most popular destinations in the U.S. are in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas and New York. Outside the U.S., top destinations include Mexico...
That's when Jones' hobby turned into gallantry. Six years ago, Jones had taken up scuba diving. As the floodwaters arrived, he donned his swim trunks, scuba mask and snorkel and stepped outside into winds of more than 100 m.p.h., punctuated by the rumble of passing tornadoes. "I was more worried about flying debris than I was about what was beneath the water I was walking into," says Jones, who usually dives off placid sites like Key West, Fla., and Cozumel, Mexico. Still, the rising tide was "real dark, murky and stinky." He plunged in--at one point stepping perilously...
...wearing orange life jackets, over 100 Koreans leapt into Victoria Harbour, floating just a few hundred meters from the convention center where the talks were being held. It was a peculiar act of protest, but it was brave-the polluted waters of the harbor haven't been safe for swimming in years. "I cannot swim," pear farmer Han Do Sook said later, struggling to explain the politics of his perilous plunge. "But right now, I feel as if the WTO is trying to make me swim without a life vest." A squadron of Koreans did make a break...