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Editor’s note: Former Harvard hurler Frank Herrmann ’06, a prospect with the Cleveland Indians, reported to camp in Winter Haven, Fla., in early March. This is his diary...
...more than one hundred and fifty minor leaguers who reported to Winter Haven have had to endure endless testing, both psychological and physical...
...last month's Torino Olympics?courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng?skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country?Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province?and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets?a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer...
...lifts?just an escalator that takes skiers partway up the slope. Still, a Yinqixing spokesman says the facility has recorded 500,000 visits since opening in 2002. One such customer is Shanghai native Gao Rujin, who recently brought her 6-year-old son to enjoy the indoor winter wonderland. "When I was a child, I never had opportunities like this," she says as she straps on the boy's rented skis. "I want to cultivate a spirit of adventure in my son by exposing him to new things." In today's China, upward mobility sometimes entails going straight downhill...
...July 1, after a 15-year absence from Mass. Hall, Bok will retake Harvard’s reins as the university recovers from its own revolution this winter...