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Last year, Harvard finished first during the regular season, but placed third in the tournament. Although the Crimson wound up second in the country, the only title it copped in 1985-'86 was Ivy League champion...
Picked by many ECAC coaches to repeat as league champion this year, the Cornell men's hockey team didn't even make the playoffs. The Big Red finished with an 8-14 record and wound up ninth in the 12-team league...
Trailing 5-4 after two periods, McGinty tied the match with an escape 20 seconds into the final frame. As time wound down, the match seemed destined to be a draw, but a determined McGinty took down Gunderson with one second left--good for a 17-10 Harvard lead...
...priestess Salammbo danced to the seductive warbling of a flute, her long white dress slowly fell to the ground, and she stood naked before the sacred python. Taking the serpent in her arms, she "wound it round her waist, under her arms, between her knees . . . Salammbo gasped beneath this weight . . . her back bent, she felt she was dying; and with the tip of its tail it gently flicked her thigh...
...compounds have been found to be superconductors near that temperature extreme. The only practical way to make something that cold is to bathe it in liquid helium, which exists only at temperatures below 4 K. But helium is rare, and expensive to liquefy. Even so, the efficiency of electromagnets wound with superconducting wires is so great that in certain situations the expense is justified...