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That year, Albers faced his toughest pitcher: Yale's Dan Lock. Albers grounded back to Lock in that...
...Bopp faded in the California sky early last Tuesday, U.S. Army Major Russ Oaks got a taste of all three. Oaks was participating in one of the Pentagon's most ambitious and elaborate war games ever, a laser-gun battle pitting a 2,000-soldier "experimental force" against the toughest men in the war-game business, Fort Irwin's vaunted 2,000-man "opposing force." OPFOR had the home-turf advantage, with a 90% win record in this 20-sq.-mi. stretch of the Mojave Desert. But Oaks' EXFOR had a secret weapon: humvees and M-1 tanks crammed with...
...March 10) points out a serious but easily solved problem afflicting not just hockey but all Harvard sports: lack of fan support. There is no doubt that the fans--the "twelfth man"--are vital to a team's victory and overall success. Indeed, the Crimson icemen often play their toughest and most inspired hockey in Cornell's Lynah Rink, feeding off the intensity of the crowd and the atmosphere of the building, even when that crowd is rooting for the enemy. On the other hand, sparse attendance and collective apathy seem to characterize even the biggest games...
...environmental laws--indictments are possible and more departures likely. The NRC has become a more aggressive regulator, displaying new teeth in January when it added eight plants to its "watch list" of problem reactors, a move the industry protested as "political" and nuclear critics applauded. "Jackson is the toughest chairman we've seen," says Bill Magavern, director of the Critical Mass Energy Project at Ralph Nader's Public Citizen watchdog group. "But she's fighting mighty economic pressures...
...while Wade had her lines polished after a day of spinning the media, it was this group of youngsters that was about to ask her the toughest questions...