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...there is always the chance of vegetarian theory gone madly wrong in practice. A Queens, N.Y., couple were indicted last May for first-degree assault, charged with nearly starving their toddler to death on a strict diet of juices, ground nuts, herbal tea, beans, flaxseed and cod-liver oils. At 16 months, the girl weighed 10 lbs., less than half the normal weight of a child her age. Their lawyer's defense: "They felt that they have their own lifestyle. They're vegetarians." The couple declined to plea-bargain, and are still in jail awaiting trial...
After taking in a Red Sox game, college students Wilson Rodgers and Christian Johnson, who are staying in Cape Cod for the summer, were driving down Mill Street to visit a friend attending Harvard Summer School when they saw sparks coming from the front...
...antagonism when you're a superpower with a short history and friendly borders. Last week we pulled off a huge victory against Portugal. It didn't make us feel that great because there's not much Portugal is better at than us, other than making sweet wine and salted cod. This is a country that has been in decline since 1494, when in the saddest, most grandiose moment of self-delusion in history, it actually sat down with Spain and divided up the world. Not even Brad Grey and Mike Ovitz ever did that, at least not publicly...
...antagonism when you're a superpower with a short history and friendly borders. Last week we pulled off a huge victory against Portugal. It didn't make us feel that great because there's not much Portugal is better at than us, other than making sweet wine and salted cod. This is a country that has been in decline since 1494, when in the saddest, most grandiose moment of self-delusion in history, it actually sat down with Spain and divided up the world. Not even Brad Grey and Mike Ovitz ever did that, at least not publicly...
With the music industry asleep at the wheel, Shawn Fanning, a first-year at Northeastern, drew up a bit of technology history of his own. While plodding through his first-year classes, the young Cape Cod native was programming a little ditty called Napster, an application that promised to make MP3 distribution easy and fast. Turns out he was way ahead of more than just the rich executives at Warner and BMG. While students eagerly traded the latest Britney songs, Harvard’s Internet connection started feeling the weight of a whole new breed of traffic. Students weren?...