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Just two days after its first weekend sweep in over a year--two victories over Yale and Brown that sent Harvard into the thick of the Ivy title chase--the Crimson turned in one of its worst first halves of the year in a game whose only significance was in the scoring books...
...never seen a winter this hard on deer," says Joe Gerrans, a Colorado wildlife supervisor. The snows came unusually early, so the herds had only a brief time for winter foraging. Now much of the sagebrush and other shrubs is covered by a layer of snow so thick and crusty that the hungry animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains in one week in Carbon County, Wyo. Where prey go, predators follow: coyotes are coming close to towns to eat deer. Or whatever...
That problem is not insoluble, at least in theory. Scientists agree that the nuclear waste at U.S. reactor sites could be vitrified, or sealed in 11-in.-thick glass and permanently buried in underground caverns or salt formations. The volume of such wastes could be even further reduced if the U.S. began recycling fuel; 97% of some fissionable materials can be reclaimed...
...explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts." Robert Frost, Hart Crane and John Dos Passes are only a few of the competing ghosts. By now live writers are so thick on the ground that the pink stucco Monroe County Public Library publishes a pamphlet: Key West: Writers in Residence (latest announced total...
Except for the tedium, however, the crews are not suffering. The barge companies supply all meals, and the fare is fine. The men on the Ann Blessey polish off inch-thick steaks several times a week. Lunch one day last week on the Hawkeye consisted of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, tamale pie, green beans, pineapple upside-down cake and fresh bread. "The cook's probably working harder than anybody," says Dennis Drury, captain of the Cooperative Vanguard...