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...after losing in the finals.After Saturday’s competition, all four wrestlers clinched berths in the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Oklahoma City on March 17-19. The top three wrestlers in each weight class in the EIWAs earn a berth in the NCAA, and 14 wild-card wrestlers are selected by a vote among league coaches to join the group.Overall in the EIWAs, Harvard finished fifth out of 13 teams in the tournament, putting up 79.5 points. The Crimson placed just behind Navy, which finished with 86 points, while Lehigh, Cornell, and Penn finished...
...fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian flu, which reached France last month. So far, the only infection of commercial birds has been in the Dombes wetlands of the Ain region near Lyon, around 600 km to the east of the Landes. Several dozen wild birds have died of the infection in Ain. Could the Landes be the virus' next target? With its high concentration of domestic birds, and its lakes along the Atlantic coast favored by migratory waterfowl soon due to return from Africa, the Landais are on high alert. Still, when it comes...
...girls do nothing but obsess about boys, clothes and makeup, talk in phonetically rendered dialogue ("Ehmagawd!") and stab each other in the back. They're scared of each other, but they're stuck with each other--it's like Sartre with lip gloss. "The Pretty Committee girls were like wild animals," thinks Claire, the most sympathetic one (she actually has one dorky, noncool friend). "If they smelled fear, they'd pounce." Funny or sad? Either way, it's unmistakably true to junior-high reality...
Budnitz's breakout deal, though, could be the one he just signed with the San Francisco digital-animation studio Wild Brain. It opens the arena of TV shows, animated shorts and feature films to Kidrobot's characters. "It's going to blow everything away," says Budnitz. Says Wild Brain CEO Charles Rivkins, former head of the Jim Henson Co.: "A portion of Paul's vision has been capital constrained...
...DIED. JACK WILD, 53, former child actor who starred as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!; of mouth cancer; in London. Wild's impish charms won him an Oscar nomination for his part in the Dickens adaptation and earned him a starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...