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Harvard's nine novice boats in Saturday's Tail of the Charles had an ulterior motive for shaving some seconds off their times--they wanted to get to The Game. So, while impatient friends gunned the motors of their Hertzes, three of the lightweight crews streaked into first, second and third places in their division and the three heavyweight crews pulled into fourth, fifth and eighth places...
...scene reminiscent of the Spanish Armada, 30 boats from 10 New England colleges clogged the Charles last Saturday for the Tail of the Charles, the first race of the year for novice women's crew teams and the first race ever for 60 aspiring rowers...
...always in the past, so in the future: each ecosystem will produce its own specialized creatures. Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail. Dixon proposes new islands settled by bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous...
...flowers segue from red to royal blue. Now the queen, revived in love, rides through the meadow, and the colors chorus riotously: her hair is rifle-fire red, the grass a Midas gold, the trees electric green, her horse an impossible white-and as it gallops by, its tail waves bright yellow in the new morning breeze of a storybook kingdom brought to life in the movies...
...Yorker writers, and this retrospective shows why. Open it at any point and there the author is, fluting a different tune but charming the same old snake. How strange life is, say his mannered little perplexities. How strangely strange. How oddly unfathomable. Can't make head or tail of it. Weird...