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...small town's Dionysian "Dirty Day" festival: "Those bulging sacks on the cart contain moist soil and live ants, the big, juicy, biting kind, bred and nurtured especially for tonight's extravaganza. Apparently, the ants are sprinkled with vinegar just before the main event, to get them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair...
...Star-Spangled Banner,” preceding a chorus of “U-S-A” which typically one would expect to hear at a Republican Party rally in Flyover Country. With the election of Obama, otherwise only tepidly-patriotic liberals could not contain their affection for America...
...linemen on Saturday: sophomore Chris LeRoy and junior Ben Sessions got their first starts of the season against the Lions. Harvard gave up five sacks on Saturday, the most it has allowed all season. OFF AND RUNNING Harvard’s defense spent most of the afternoon trying to contain the scrambling of Columbia’s quarterbacks, M.A. Olawale and Shane Kelly. The two combined for 49 yards on 17 carries, and Olawale rushed for a third-quarter touchdown. “We knew coming into the game that he was going to be their...
...continued, "When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call supernaturalism. As a writer I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about. As a person I don't need it and as person I do. I would agree, that tension is irreconcilable. [But] it's just there. It's just...
Though CFL bulbs expend only one-fourth the energy of their incandescent counterparts, they also contain trace amounts of toxic mercury. According to Wofsy, the 5 milligrams of mercury per bulb “doesn’t sound like much, but it adds...