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Other Ig Nobel recipients included Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida who studied insect splats on car windows; the late Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany who was honored for his work on "Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed"; and a team of scientists led by Carl J. Charnetski who showed that listening to elevator music may help prevent the common cold...
Some of us took copious notes in Justice lectures, some of us wandered the Yard for hours, looking for "that party in Greenough, or maybe Stoughton, I'm not sure," some of us even ate the Kung Pao chicken in Annenberg. Mine was introducing myself as a Yankees fan(atic) to someone from Atlanta...
...sooner had Jimmy Leyritz hit Mark Wohlers's hanging slider somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon line than did I hear an unearthly scream from Georgia-boy, and see my roommate's lawn ornament chicken take flight, straight into a Canaday concrete wall. A couple of days later, Frank Torre had a new heart and the World Series trophy was back in the Big Apple...
...trip climbing Mount Kilimanjaro gave some idea of why many say she sets an impossible standard for regular women. Finding the food at Horombo Hut at 12,500 ft. "inedible," she commandeered the porters and put together vegetable soup, chicken risotto and tomato salad using her Swiss Army knife. "She drives me insane," says Katherine Stuart, 33, of Los Angeles. "Part of me loves her. I mean, my God, she picks her own eggs, makes her own paint and makes everything so pretty. I had a subscription for two months, but she made me feel so deficient, so I canceled...
...Chicken parmsan...