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...season started well with a win at the Oneonta Wrestling Classic. Lately, however, the team has stumbled, placing tenth and 12th at the Coast Guard and New York State wrestling tourneys respectively...

Author: By Gordon P. Bellamy, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Grapplers Hold Tourney | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

...Boise affiliate of H.J. Heinz Co., they peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Processing: To Skin A Spud | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...four Guard divisions he keeps around Baghdad as a kind of personal army. Nor is it certain that American air power could turn the tide -- or even that it could be fully employed. The U.S. has only about 150 ground-based warplanes left in the area, less than a tenth of those that flew in Desert Storm, and some of those operate out of Incirlik in Turkey. The Turks might never let them take off. Ankara's top priority is to prevent formation of anything resembling an independent Kurdish state inside Iraq that inevitably would try to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Are Saddam's Days Numbered? | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

While Dartmouth was struggling to break into the ten-point barrier, Harvard was having problems of its own. The Crimson did not score its tenth point until 8:03 left in the first half, when Mitchell buried a 19-footer from the wing...

Author: By John B. Trainer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Triumphant at Last: M. Cagers Down Dartmouth for First Victory, 41-35 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Plenty, according to Vyacheslav Tabolin, a Russian authority on pediatrics. He fears a major health crisis is looming for today's undernourished children, because their parents and grandparents suffered from malnutrition. Health officials estimate that only 8.5% of schoolchildren in the first to tenth grades are of a height, weight and build normal for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Unmerry Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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