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Longest Run in Harvard-Yale game: Two weeks. In 1958 Harvard tackle Marty Lefski ate 497 prunes as part of a Pi Eta Club initiation on the eve of The Game. As a result, Lefski did not play in the classic and didn't make it out of the Dillon Field House bathroom until the beginning of reading period...
...rock dwellings are above ground. On the perimeter of the valley, at Denikulu and Kaymakli, the Byzantines tunnelled down into the soft tufa and constructed underground cities eight levels deep and a mile wide, fit to house 10,000 people, their animals and their stores. The inhabitants cooked and ate communally. Special chimney systems were designed to conceal the smoke; ventilation shafts provided air. The various rooms are all connected by a labyrinthine network of stairs and corridors. These troglodytes wheeled mammoth stones across the entrance and holed themselves up for six months at a time...
...raspberries and cream she ate, the elevator you worked yourself to get to her apartment, the purple address book full of numbers for her friends "from Naples to Nantucket," remain more real than...
MANATEES. Native to Florida, South America and the Caribbean, the manatee (or sea cow) was once regarded as the answer to the water hyacinths; each was believed to consume as much as 100 lbs. of the hyacinths a day. But placed in weed-clogged waters, the manatee ate its way through a mere 40 lbs. of the damnable plant daily. The hulking, hairless creatures, who may have helped inspire the mermaid legend (their mammaries faintly resemble those of a woman), also find it difficult to coexist with power boats. University of Miami biologists report that about 20% of all manatees...
...drives north to Atlanta's Farmers Market, sometimes sleeping in the truck for several nights until all the peaches and vegetables are sold. Last year his total sales came to $16,100, out of which he netted a mere $3,720. Outlays for sprays, seed and fertilizer ate up $10,000 his two aging tractors cost another...