Word: weather
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...weather could not have been more different from day to day this weekend as top-ranked Harvard coed sailing team proved that it dominates the water, rain or shine...
...England Sloop Championships took place in Winthrop, Mass., with Harvard entering the team of sophomore skipper Vince Porter and senior John Mulcahy as his crew. And as anyone in Massachussetts knows, the weather between the days could not have been more disparate. Saturday was sunny with temperatures in the mid-60’s as three of the weekend’s five races took place in an 8-12 knot northeasterly wind. However, the Crimson made a much stronger showing once the weather turned rainy and windy on Sunday, proving that Porter and Mulcahy are capable sailors...
...It’s disappointing when it rains,” Wu said. “But you just have to put it in the back of your mind and go out and play. You have to realize that you can’t change the weather, and the person who is able to concentrate the best is usually the one to come out on top in these tournaments...
...huge North Mine, the work goes on round the clock, 365 days a year, in some of the worst weather on Earth. In summer the ground turns mushy, and the huge trucks bog down. "It's like working in peanut butter," says a Syncruder. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -40F, the oil sand is so hard it grinds up the shovels' steel teeth as if they were plastic combs. It's not unusual to replace the teeth after a single 12-hour shift. Suncorp, another oil-sands company, has an $8 million annual budget just...
Putting aesthetics aside, even Daniels agrees that Sert’s buildings, with their use of concrete and large plazas, are “absolutely unfit for New England weather conditions...