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...wear and tear of the four-match weekend took its toll on the Harvard women’s volleyball squad, as the squad fell to Northeastern, 3-1 (30-28, 29-31, 24-30, 19-30), yesterday evening at Lavietes Pavilion. “The mental stamina through four matches for the weekend is tough,” head coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We started out awesome, but they pushed at us, and we didn’t respond.” Hot off Saturday’s victories against Hartford (6-9) and NJIT...
...were due to lead paint; the remaining 17.4 million (11.7 million in the U.S.) were toys recalled not because of lead paint but because they were made with super-strong magnets. If they come loose and are swallowed in multiples, those magnets can come together with force enough to tear through the intestines of a young child. (Mattel's announcement noted three such serious injuries that required surgery.) The magnet recall was unusually large because it includes toys sold as far back as 2002, before Mattel changed its design to encase the magnets in plastic to make them more secure...
Buddhist monks sprayed with tear gas at protest...
While Bukowski, who died in 1994, is now a literary immortal, his bungalow's days may be numbered. The current owner recently evicted the tenants, erected a chain-link fence, and put the property on the market, advertising on Craigslist, "You can easily tear down the old building and do new construction...
...great, happy marriage for all their years. So there he is on his deathbed. He'd been in a coma a couple of days, and a priest has come in to give last rites. This was the first time, Irish that they are, that my aunt let a tear fall, trusting that his coma would make him unaware of it. Well, open come the eyes, and he sees. He catches her--she can't get away with it. And his last words were "What're ya crying about? You're gonna die too." Chris McCandless lived too short, that...