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Green Driving: BioTour comes to Tufts

I cannot seem to pick up a newspaper these days without coming across some new terrifying statistic about alternative energy and global warming. I do not know about anyone else, but such predictions have tended to steer me towards hopelessness. The relentless obstacles and red tape seem to imply that nothing can really be done to solve these momentous problems.


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Big-market machine against Cinderella: Who will win it?

The 2007 World Series will feature two teams in the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies who couldn't be more different. While big-market Boston entered the season with a whopping $143 million payroll, the Rockies' payroll was only $3 million more than the Red Sox' posting fee for Daisuke Matsuzaka. Boston is just three years removed from a World Series championship, while Colorado is making its first-ever appearance in the Fall Classic. Which team has the edge? A position-by-position breakdown:



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Jimmy's 'Light' shines, but not like 'American'

There are few bands left in the world today that are just generic, good rock bands. Jimmy Eat World bears the burden of being one of those bands and unfortunately, the group is constantly plagued with critics and fans attempting to brand them with a label.


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Tufts receives 15 more letters from the RIAA

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sent another batch of pre-litigation letters to Tufts, offering students who have illegally shared music the choice to either settle out of court or face lawsuits.



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Top Ten | Tribal Tragedies

The Boston Red Sox's comeback from two games down, which was finalized on Sunday night with an 11-2 thrashing of the visiting Indians, added to an already rough playoff history for Cleveland. The Indians had dreams of returning to their first World Series since 1997, when they were two outs away from winning Game 7 before blowing the lead and losing in the 11th inning. They seemed well on their way, with a split at Fenway and wins in Cleveland in Games 3 and 4. But the Indians could not close out the Red Sox, who made another miraculous comeback to earn the AL pennant. In honor of the Indians 'heartbreaking loss, we present the Top 10 Tribal Tragedies from the ALCS.









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Volleyball | Tufts takes third in weekend's tourney

With the final games of the NESCAC regular season just one week away, the volleyball team could have easily overlooked its weekend trip to Smith College. But the Jumbos came out ready to play and stayed on top of their momentum wave heading towards November.