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The intent of the science fair — a rudimentary act of frustration and hope — was to garner more public attention for the life-saving and cutting-edge research they quietly conduct behind closed lab doors.

Five thousand families were living under rudimentary tarpaulins in the camp we visited, surrounded by mud and with minimal sanitation.

It revolved around rudimentary weightlifting; first and foremost, sets of back squats the day after he took the mound.

It coincided with the introduction of a rudimentary version of the save, created by longtime Sporting News and Chicago baseball writer Jerome Holtzman.

"Considering the rudimentary state of travel back then, people from the Indus Valley would not have been able to migrate to the south in such large numbers to set up civilisation," he says.