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Shout: An essential Australian custom. Generally means a “round” of alcoholic beverages that is paid for by a single member of the drinking party. If you ever find yourself in an Australian pub, you must offer to “shout” all your new-found mates a drink—it’s considered very bad form to buy a drink just for yourself. Of course, such a system of communal purchasing tends to encourage heavy drinking, but who’s complaining...
...designed to detonate an incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson
These seniors also benefit from the custom of freshmen “donations” of snacks for bus rides. They take great joy in controlling not only the supply among the O-line but also distribution to the other positions...
...stacks of Widener. Using John Harvard’s foot as a urinal. Pretending to like the Red Sox. At a school so heavily steeped in tradition, custom and ritual abound, touching most—if not every—aspect of student life in some...
...summer, knowing he hadn’t filled out after his growth spurt, he spent a month at HammerBodies Custom Fitness Clinic in St. Louis. There, he went on a diet of seven meals a day that he still follows and gained over 15 pounds while decreasing his body...