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...That goal" was scored by Yale junior striker Jeff Farmelo at the 31:40 mark of the game. As sweeper Peter Zanobi air-mailed a pass to the right side of the box, Farmelo beat out a trap and controlled the ball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Cripples M. Booters' Ivy Hopes | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...have a trail of blood across our floor," said Kermit Roosevelt '93, a resident of Hollis South who has killed seven mice. "The mouse must have dragged the trap in its death agonies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Wage War on Rodents | 10/7/1989 | See Source »

Another Hollis resident, Francesca G. Muller '93, said that one mouse "was wiggling in our trap. He was flipping about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Wage War on Rodents | 10/7/1989 | See Source »

Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: About-Face | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the lawyer he thought of becoming. The main weakness of his writing is that its purpose often seems more political than literary, more attuned to social issues than to the private struggles of the human heart. The final scene of M. Butterfly, when the agony of one soul finally takes precedence over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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