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(clockwise
from top left) On Nov. 5, Adam Oates was inducted into
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics Hall
of Fame. Oates, who led RPI to a national championship
in 1985, went on to a brilliant career in the National
Hockey League, and currently is 13th among the NHL’s
all-time point-scoring leaders; Smarty Jones won the
first two legs of thoroughbred racing’s triple crown,
but Birdstone (pictured) had the last laugh—the 3-year-old
horse owned by Saratoga socialite Marylou Whitney upset
Smarty in the Belmont Stakes, and later took Saratoga’s
biggest prize, the Travers; Meredith Streeter and John
Bensetler examined the contents of a geocache, one of
more than 100,000 hidden treasures waiting to be found
in the global scavenger hunt known as geocaching; the
H.M.S. Bounty and its young crew docked at the Port
of Albany in November, reminding us that young men—and
women—can still run away to the sea.
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