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When you get addicted, it's hard to pass a light bulb...
Last fall Sophomore Jay Bennett, a fullback on Harvard's football team, read that a professional player was "so mean that he ate glass." After a few drinks at a party, Bennett set out to prove that eating glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...
First the bulb eater cracks the glass into slivers and discards the filament and socket screw; there are limits even to an undergraduate's digestive prowess...
...thought that wasn't valid," Bennett said. "Anybody can eat glass." After he took an initial chomp out of a bulb, others at the party said they wanted...
...walk in the door, one of Paul's house-mates Greg, is doing an experiment in the kitchen. He teaches science to ninth graders, and he's showing the experiment to Susan and another woman whose name I miss. The experiment makes hot ammonia gush up into a glass bulb, turning red in the process. It works. Greg is pleased, Paul introduces me to everyone...