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Even though the weather may not show it yet, spring is definitely in the air for Harvard athletics this weekend. With the major winter draws of hockey and men's basketball over, it's time to turn our attention to baseball, tennis, and lacrosse. More on a sports-filled weekend after the jump...
Many of the Crimson athletes will be seeking warmer weather this weekend, with baseball and both tennis teams headed south of the Mason-Dixon line. Women's lacrosse opens its Ivy slate at Brown tomorrow afternoon, and men's volleyball is out seeking its first road...
...There is good reason to believe the capitulation of the American consumer has only just begun," said economist Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Ajay Chhibber, director of the Asia bureau at the United Nations Development Program in New York City, says the tigers can't expect to weather this recession by temporarily increasing government spending to boost growth until Western export markets recover. "The model where you stimulate and [then] go back to the old days is gone," he says...
There's something magical about local newscasts. The kooky weather people, the upwardly striving anchors, the uncomfortably enthusiastic sportcasters - they all come together to make a heady potion that reeks of ambition, sadness and desperation (with just a hint of unearned arrogance...
...areas around the world could be at increased risk for flooding. "Unless we take urgent and significant mitigation actions, the climate could cross a threshold during the 21st century committing the world to a sea-level rise of meters," says John Church, an oceanographer at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research and one of the study's co-authors...