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Against Brown, the Crimson will again be without center and captain Kalen Ingram, still suffering from a broken thumb...
Harvard faced the top two teams in the nation without last season’s national assist leader, senior center Kalen Ingram. Ingram, another captain, broke her thumb slamming into the boards last week at Dartmouth and will be out five to six weeks...
Whitchurch, who inherited his green thumb from his mother and spent last summer working on his grandparents’ 3,000-acre farm, has a simple approach to growing. For each plant he has created a “tailor-made growing environment,” he says. “We pride ourselves on treating each plant as an individual.” Plants that prefer a great deal of sunlight are placed under a sunlamp, and those that need lots of water are specially treated with frequent waterings. Whitchurch takes no chances with watering his plants?...
...little research last week, when autumn officially began, and found that filling the summer-blueberry void is easier than I expected. Fall, after all, is a season of vibrant colors, and that turns out to be just what you want in a fruit or vegetable. As a rule of thumb, says Althea Zanecosky, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, the more colorful the produce the better it is for you. "A fruit or vegetable with a lot of pigment is actually very rich in antioxidants," says Zanecosky, pointing to the deep greens, dark yellows and vibrant oranges that fill...
...plays a big role in the state of the relationship with old friends. "Divorce is a conflict between two people that, instead of being solved, is frozen and then lived around," says Philip Belove, a therapist specializing in marital and family issues in West Brattleboro, Vt. "The rule of thumb is this: the less forgiving people are, the more they tend to want to involve others in their unresolved conflicts, and the more they have custody battles over friendships." Spouses who try to make their friends choose sides and isolate an ex-partner as revenge may find themselves isolated, because...