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...attract my female classmates (unsuccessfully) and sneaking away with my friends to turn off the church's air conditioning system (successfully, but this was an extremely bad idea). My teachers, faced with a classroom of people like me, needed to reach the lowest common denominator. We watched Rambo, ate many donuts and played a lot of run-around-and-shriek games. If there was a message in there, I usually missed it--I learned Christianity as well as you learn social theory from watching Jerry Springer...
...week. He dropped by the White House for a new-economy conference, where President Clinton lauded him for his "phenomenal" charitable contributions. And he roamed Capitol Hill for meetings with more than 125 members of Congress, including a private chat with Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain. The tourists ate it up; the $100 Billion Man attracted movie-star crowds wherever he went. But the whole scene left Microsoft's critics fuming. "It just makes you wonder what for," Senator Orrin Hatch groused. "I certainly hope it's not to discuss the case...
...months, Jimmy Liu '01 ate his Cheerios in front of his computer in Kentucky, not wanting to miss a trade. The infinite fluctuations of numbers became his daily grind; the NASDAQ webpage his rodeo. Liu was caught up in the adrenaline rush of day trading. "There is a euphoria of everyone playing the same game together. When it starts picking up you want to be there. If you're not, you could lose or gain thousands of dollars," he says...
...could go on and on." Visitors to the site can buy ihateclowns.com t-shirts, get free e-mail at ihateclowns.com, participate in chats about the evils of clowns, play an animated punch-a-clown game, review "34 reasons why you should hate clowns" (Reason #14: "A clown ate the dog that ate my homework") and even compose anti-clown poetry, such as this haiku: "Clowns mess up our kids / And anger all their parents / Clowns are evil things...
...battled with your kids to eat till the plate is empty? A study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association suggests you back away from this food fight, which may contribute to overeating among children. When served bigger than usual portions of macaroni and cheese, three-year-olds ate until they felt full. But five-year-olds had already learned to ignore their bodies' signals that they had had enough to eat, and instead ate more when they were served more...