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...RIVER OF DOUBT CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle...
...especially five-on-three, when they have so much traffic in front of the net,†Martin said. The Bulldogs’ goal tied the game just fewer than 10 minutes after the Crimson special teams unit started the scoring with a perfectly executed play. Freshman Sarah Wilson found classmate and linemate Jenny Brine, who shoveled off a quick pass to senior Jennifer Raimondi. Raimondi’s quick one-timer caught Yale’s goalie Sarah Love off-guard and gave Harvard its first goal since the second period of a loss to Dartmouth last Monday...
...Pellegrino University professor, Galison joins a line of storied scholars who have held the same post, including philosopher Robert Nozick and biologist Edward O. Wilson...
Additionally, the magazine named Brown, senior first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz, sophomore third baseman Steffan Wilson, senior outfielder Lance Salsgiver, and sophomore ace Shawn Haviland to its pre-season All-Conference team...
Freshman Tom Stack-Babich, a transfer from Wake Forest, arrives as Harvard’s heralded new power source, and will complement Klimkiewicz and Wilson in the middle of the order. He was recognized as the league’s best new arrival by “Baseball America...