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...from millions of years past when the two oceans were still connected. Such a lucky canal worker would then mount the tooth and wear it proudly on a black watch fob. Reginald Beckford, who worked for a time in a jeweler's shop, remembered mounting many shark teeth for West Indian clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Men, A Plan, A Canal — Panama | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...looking to do.”NO. 6 ROCHESTER 7, HARVARD 2Rochester (12-6) was vengeful coming into the match, with a 5-4 December loss against the Crimson still vivid in their minds. The Yellowjackets got the last laugh, though, triumphing over Harvard to claim third place.Junior Colin West finished a strong weekend with a 9-1, 9-4, 9-0 drubbing of Rochester’s Jim Bristow, and sophomore Richard Hill earned an additional win for the Crimson, but the rest of the lineup faltered against the Yellowjackets.Senior Ned Reeves overcame a two-game deficit against Yohay...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Comes Up Short at National Tourney | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson men’s tennis team traveled to the mid-west this weekend for a pair of testing match-ups against two top Big Ten teams. On Friday evening, No. 48 Harvard (4-3), traveled to chilly Ann Arbor to take on No. 19 Michigan (6-4), where the Crimson failed to overcome the Wolverines for the fourth consecutive year. The team then drove 200 miles through a snowstorm to play Northwestern (10-1) in Evanston, Illinois, where Harvard could not earn a point against the Wildcats.“The weekend was really challenging,” Crimson...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls in Midwest Contests | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Information Act that showed that the Russian Navy undertook more underwater ballistic missile submarine patrols in 2008 than it has in a decade. The Russian subs are joined in the word's oceans by nuclear-armed vessels from France, Britain, and China. Under the plains of the American West, and in similar silos in Russia, Air Force missile operators keep constant vigil, launch keys at the ready. Nuclear missiles have no self-destruct button; once launched, they cannot be called back. Twenty years after the end of the cold war, humanity still lives within 30 minutes of its own destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nuclear Risk: How Long Will Our Luck Hold? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...even on his own, Bibi would be a bitter pill for the rest of the region to swallow. Netanyahu ran on a platform that would bring the peace process to a halt. His stated policies would continue the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, would brook no discussion of sharing Jerusalem as a joint capital between Israel and a future Palestinian state and, instead of negotiating for a two-state solution, would focus on "economic peace," in effect giving Palestinians jobs but not their land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing for a Hard-Right Israel | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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