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...unprecedented success—including a perfect conference record. Along the way, he also made a name for himself on both the Ivy League and national swimming circuit by setting numerous records and consistently outperforming his opponents in both regular and postseason meets.“Being able to train with Geoff has been a great experience, because he basically sets the bar for competitive exellence and sets the standard for what can be achieved for an Ivy League athlete,” fellow co-captain Sam Wollner said. “I think he’s an inspiration...
...Crimson—a year older, wiser, and more experienced—is poised to contend for a league title. “Improving from [2006] was not difficult,” Rhodes said. “We’ve had this entire offseason and spring to train this core group, and you could see a big improvement that I’ve never seen in my time here.”“In this league, you make runs every once in a while when you have a good team returning and they know what it takes...
...when researchers from the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania, began training rats - known for their keen sense of smell - for the job, the Mozambicans were willing to give it a try. "Rats are intelligent, and they like to learn new things," says Jared Mkumbo, a Tanzanian who supervises the training of the rats and their handlers. "You can train them to do exactly what you want them to do." The project, run by an organization called Apopo, which is funded by the Flemish government in Belgium, is proving so effective that a new batch of mine-sniffing rats...
...Rats are almost perfectly suited for this type of work, argues Mkumbo. They are easy to train and transport to clearance sites, cheap to feed, and resistant to many of the tropical diseases to which dogs succumb. In the field, they are quick and methodical. Thirty-six rats trained in Tanzania are working on the project so far, and have already cleared thousands of mines across the country. "Two rats can clear a 200-square-meter area in one hour," says Mkumbo. "It takes one [human] de-miner two weeks to do the same area." And all that the rats...
...bets. In laboratories and on shooting ranges, there are people who study what happens to bodies and minds under extreme duress. Military researchers conduct elaborate experiments to try to predict who will melt down in a crisis and who will thrive. Police, soldiers, race-car drivers and helicopter pilots train to anticipate the strange behaviors they will encounter at the worst of times. Regular people can learn from that knowledge, since, after all, we will be the first on the scene of any disaster...