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Despite trailing Cornell’s boat for much of the course length at headwind, the Black and White was able to catch up in the final 500 meters and finished only one-tenth of a second behind the Big Red for third place...
...improbable as April’s path is now, it would have been laughably absurd a generation ago. In the 1960s, only a tenth of U.S. doctoral degrees went to women, and few of those were awarded outside the fields of education or the humanities...
...fact that its western shore was long dominated by the Fresh Kills landfill, the repository of much of Manhattan's garbage. Culturally, the island nestling at the southern tip of New York state is a world away from New York City's other four boroughs. It has just one-tenth the population density of Manhattan, and its mostly Republican denizens have more in common politically and demographically with the Deep South than with the heavily Democratic and diverse Gotham. In fact, Staten Island tried to secede from New York City in the early 1990s, and most residents still support incorporating...
...Energy Information Agency estimated that reversing the Bush Administration's decision to expand offshore drilling - policies similar to those proposed by Obama - would increase oil prices by $0.11 per barrel in 2020 and $1.33 a barrel in 2030. Those increases would raise gas prices by less than a tenth of a penny per gallon in 2020 and just three cents a gallon by 2030. Obama acknowledged this in his announcement. "With less than 2% of oil reserves but more than 20% of world consumption, drilling alone cannot come close to meeting our long-term energy needs," he said...
Weintraub gave Harvard match point, notching his tenth kill of the contest. Jones closed it out with a thundering kill, his 22nd of the match...