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Next weekend, the Crimson will travel to Fordham (0-5, 0-2 Patriot), which lost Saturday 35-18 to Penn and lost two weekends ago to Cornell, 42-14. Fordham barely poses a threat on paper, but Harvard has to shake off two week's worth of disappointing losses...
These impediments, however, are counterbalanced by innovations in travel, telecommunications, social understanding, health and life expectancy. Savvy parents and grandparents are harnessing these to strengthen intergenerational ties. "We have to reinvent ourselves as we go along, but we have more time to get it right," says Lillian Carson, a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Tour operators know a good market when they see one. And grandparents, at more than 60 million strong today and expected to increase to as many as 100 million by 2010, are clearly a cash reserve waiting to be tapped. So, many travel agents now offer intergenerational packages. Helena Koenig's Grandtravel is, well, the grandmother of them all. Long ago, when Koenig was just a parent, she noticed that the most successful outings she had with her kids were the ones in which she allowed each child to invite a friend. Fourteen years ago, after launching a successful travel...
TIME LAPSE Sorry, jet-lag sufferers. A report shows that melatonin may be no better than a sugar pill in alleviating the sleepiness and disorientation of long-distance travel. Nearly 250 subjects were given either a placebo or one of two commonly used doses of melatonin (5 mg and .5 mg). Result: they all experienced similar jet-lag symptoms, and all recovered after about six days...
Harvard has been greatly helped by the play of the freshmen, who have filled out some low singles spots. Oliver Choo, who won the "B" field title in Providence, will travel with the team, as will Dave Lingman, who saw his first action last week. The early competition has served to acclimate them to the pressures of college tennis, calming the early season jitters...