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With 500 meters to go, the Tigers began a premature sprint, which brought them to within three seats of Harvard with about 200 meters left. Yet, the prolonged high cadence took its toll in the last 20 strokes, when the exhausted Tigers slipped back a few seats to finish 1.2 seconds behind Harvard, which crossed the 2000-meter mark...
Another unforeseen calamity proved the decision of veterans Adam Dixon and Thad McNulty to "double" their events, and run in both the 800 meter and 1500 meter races. The heat took its toll, and after running the qualifying heats, neither McNulty nor Dixon could finish...
...only the tip of a tremendous toxic iceberg. A 1978 Environmental Protection Agency study identified 32,254 toxic waste dumps around the U.S., some 800 of which posed "significant imminent hazards" to public health. Brown demonstrates that the chemicals in these sites have already begun to take their toll...
...That toll could be sharply reduced if enough Doppler weather radar stations are built in the tornado-prone regions. In fact the Norman lab's Doppler, propitiously located in the heart of the tornado belt, has already shown its future value. On April 10 last year, the radar spotted the evolving tornado-producing storm that devastated Wichita Falls, Texas...
Kemeny said his decision to resign was based on "a realistic evaluation" of what further he could expect to accomplish as president. He said the "wear and tear of the job" had taken its toll on his energy...