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Quote of the Week:"I haven't had this much fun since the pigs ate my brother," said Harvard's Trainer Dick Emerson at a frigid Soldiers Field during Harvard's doubleheader against Norhteastern...
...South Africa to its Third World of black poverty. The 173 whites, many of them members of the Dutch Reformed Church, came to Mamelodi, home to as many as half a million people, last week to strike a small blow against apartheid. For four days they lived and ate with blacks, slept in cramped homes, some without electricity and indoor plumbing, and washed at backyard faucets. "The tragedy of apartheid that we learn from this experience," said Michael Cassidy, head of a missionary group, "is not that it has failed so miserably but that it has succeeded so miserably...
...Inman-Ebel's view, people who talk like folks put stress in the wrong place (cre-ate for cre-ate), mispronounce vowels (rine for rain), draw monosyllables out into diphthongs (hay-ul for hell), and let their pitch glide, usually upward, as in "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" Some of them talk so slowly "you want to get inside and move the tongue yourself to get it over with." It does not add up to standard American speech...
...overweight. Roberts and her colleagues measured how many calories the babies took in and how many they burned off. By three months of age, six of the babies with overweight mothers were generating 21% less energy than the rest. At one year, the six had become overweight, although they ate no more than the thinner babies...
...Green traveled to Princeton over the weekend as tops in the Ivy League with an unblemished 6-0 record. But the high-scoring Dartmouth attack got stalled, quite literally, by the Tigers on Friday, who ate Cormier's men alive...