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...similar treatment. He describes his interests as "geometry, algebra, analysis" and is proud of wearing quadratic reasoning T-shirts every day. When his proctor invites him to a study break, he asks why people would take a break from studying. Several strips have shown Mr. Chu wondering why people bother finding friends in college, much less romance. In an introduction to a female peer, for example, he rudely offers her only the address of his web site. Chu's "misanthropic" tendencies are further evident in past episodes when Mr. Chu traps his white roommate in a box and taunts...
...baseball was king, Tatis' feat would have been news, 36-point headline news. About similar baseball feats, songs have been written (Joltin' Joe DiMaggio), legends born (the shot heard 'round the world), adjectives coined (Ruthian). Ballplayers once had candy bars named after them. Today evening newscasts don't even bother to give the scores...
...report concludes that the federal government does too little to pressure other countries into stemming the supply side, while U.S. law enforcement isn't doing its part to discourage the domestic market. Specifically, it asserts that U.S. attorneys don't want to bother pursuing these complex international cases and that federal laws don't punish traffickers strongly enough to discourage the practice. The report was assembled by State Department analyst Amy Richard as a special research project commissioned by the CIA. It found that some 50,000 female slaves are funneled into the U.S. annually, with a recent increase...
Those fidgety day traders didn't bother waiting for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's second decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial. As the 5 p.m. announcement drew nearer on Monday, the desktop dealers dumped more and more of their investments in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, and by the time Jackson, who four months earlier had found that Microsoft wielded monopoly power, delivered a guilty verdict on two of three counts of abusing that power, they had produced a record 348-point, 7.6 percent plunge...
ORDINARY.COM Why do some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...