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...have to be aware of how these games will affect our ability to get into the NCAA Tournament,” Mazzoleni said. “It’s going to come right down to the wire with us and the NCAA Tournament unless we win our league, so every win is crucial down the stretch...
...Pentagon grant to design plants that can guard our houses and malls: the idea is to engineer the plants genetically so that the leaves suddenly change color when exposed to biological or chemical agents. In New York City and Washington, rumors were viral, spreading by word and wire; a friend calls a friend to say her ex-boyfriend's sister's friend's father is a top New York City cop and told his daughter to "avoid the subway for the next 36 hours." Members of Congress were warned about possible assassination attempts, even as missile batteries were scattered...
Harvard (6-3, 4-2 Ivy) comes into the tournament having suffered a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Yale on Wednesday. The match went down to the wire, as Harvard freshman and intercollegiate No. 6 Will Broadbent fought valiantly against Yale’s top player, No. 3 Julian Illingworth, in the rubber game of a 4-4 tie. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Illingworth came out on top, resulting in Harvard’s first home loss to the Bulldogs in more than forty years...
Like Harvard, Northwestern University found it prohibitively expensive to wire its older dorms with cable for television. But while Harvard undergraduates are booking House television rooms and looking for south-facing windows to mount their satellite dishes, students at Northwestern are watching cable programming in their dorm rooms right...
...almost noon, and Bayarsakhan looks as if he has just woken up. His jaw hangs slack, and his face is marred by fresh gouges?the result, he says, of tripping onto barbed wire the previous night. It's -25?C, yet Bayarsakhan is wearing only a turtleneck sweater and wool pants, oblivious to the cold. He has nowhere to go, no job to occupy the bitter day ahead. So he stands here idly, amid a dense cluster of shacks, while haggard cows pick through garbage piles. After all his wanderings, the 30-year-old nomad has ended up here...