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Local businesses are trying to cheer people up by throwing open their doors. One Reykjavík restaurant, Á naestum grösum, has changed itself into a "soup kitchen" offering cast-down Icelanders a free bowl of barley-vegetable soup and a slice of bread, while just down the street a few local bars have begun selling "recession beer" at $2.60 a glass, compared with the normal price of $6 or so. But with more layoffs and further turmoil expected, it will take more than hearty stew and a pint of cheap cheer to rescue this nation from economic...
...First recorded consumption of a Scorpion Bowl in Ancient China...
...First recorded Scorpion Bowl related blackout...
When the Harvard Quiz Bowl team was winning national championships in the mid-1990s, its leader, an English graduate student named Jeffrey G. Johnson, was the stuff of legends. It was rumored that he had read 10,000 books, and that watching him take in a volume was like witnessing somebody leaf through a magazine...
Football is not just for jocks, as Harvard Business School Professor Alvin E. Roth showed by using college football bowl games to analyze inefficient matching in markets. Working with economists M. Utku Ünver and Guillaume R. Fréchette of Boston College and New York University, respectively, the researchers Roth compared the selection of teams for college bowls prior to and after the creation of a team matching system in 1992. The three professors developed the idea to study bowl games while Ünver and Fréchette were research fellows together at the Business School between...