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...practice may have begun at a private school in Washington on Jan. 18, when a group of tenth-graders did poorly on a math test. When the results came back, the class asked the teacher for a makeup exam, explaining how unfair it was to quiz them on the morning after the first missile attack of the war. They had lost too much sleep watching CNN the night before...
...virtually all human contact. Many returned home only fleetingly before retreating into tropical solitude. "My family thinks I'm an MIA in the U.S.A.," says Glenn Hayne, 44, who made it back to Oakland in February 1968, after a tour full of fire fights and body bags with the Tenth Cavalry, only to drift to Mexico and then Hawaii. He supported himself by growing the powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug agents, has switched to fishing. Patrick Barnett (not his real name), on the other hand, who is originally from Honolulu...
...Ninety-five percent of the guys swam their best swims of their lives today," Bernal said. "Blaney showed a great deal of competitiveness and character to run that guy down to less than a tenth of a second. They know they can go faster, too. They'll swim even better times...
...Harvard hockey team has had its ups and downs this season. The Crimson (10-8 overall, 10-6 ECAC) got off to a torrid 8-2 start in its division and broke into the Albany Times-Union poll as the nation's tenth-ranked team. Harvard then dropped four straight during Reading Period, but changed gears again this past weekend with wins over Army and Princeton...
...world with devastating effects on agriculture. Nuclear blasts and volcanoes can send smoke exploding 16 km or more into the upper atmosphere, enabling it to travel long distances around the globe; but the worst oil-field inferno would probably lack the upward thrust to send smoke even one-tenth as high into the air before it started to cool and descend...