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...albeit for all the wrong reasons.Each team arrived at the onset of the Ivy League season reeling from an extensive and difficult non-conference slate, and equipped with only two wins to its name and the sliver of hope that materializes when there is reason for optimism that the worst is over.But while the Lions took the beginning of Ancient Eight play as a cue to change its season’s trajectory, Harvard trudged on, by itself, along the same downward slope.The Crimson left Columbia’s Robertson Field on the wrong side of a sweep in Saturday?...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Comes Up Short in Ivy Opener, Drops Doubleheader to Columbia | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...best and worst Super Bowl commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3-D or Not 3-D: That Is the Question | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

...George W. Bush was in charge, knocking away climate change action like an NHL goalie, symbolism mattered because it was all we had. Now there's a new President who has made very green promises, and who needs to be kept to them, even in the teeth of the worst economic crisis most of us have ever known. The new battle will be fought in the nitty gritty of policy, and the protests that matter will be political ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Earth Hour Galvanize the Global Warming Fight? | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

...while the list in many cases appeared arbitrary at best, some selections appeared politically motivated at worst. Sites advocating legal euthanasia, Satanism and even Christianity were blacklisted. Initially, the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and the ACMA blacklist are the same, a denial that rang a little hollow when one of its partners, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), publicly condemned the release and posting of the list. "No reasonable person could countenance the publication of links which promote access to child-abuse images, irrespective of their motivation, which in this case appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...which still provides 20% of U.S. electricity. It didn't even kill TMI; the plant's surviving reactor is about to receive a 20-year extension of its operating license. If anything, the core meltdown did some good, prompting desperately needed upgrades of nuclear safety standards. (See the 10 worst nuclear disasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Mile Island at 30: Nuclear Power's Pitfalls | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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