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...Science Center fountain: At Harvard, instead of cracking open fire hydrants, intellectuals frolic in a fountain designed to demonstrate Brownian motion and the refraction of light. Still, water is wet, no matter how you dunk yourself...
...matter how sacred they may be, are about as interesting to watch as the growth of bamboo. What's more, Dancing is multicultural with a vengeance, meaning that the producers think it insufficient to examine the central role that dance plays in primitive societies; they must also slam-dunk colonialism and Christianity for trying to suppress native cultures. Missionaries have much to answer for, but it is surely not unreasonable that they would seek to convert tribes from religions that encouraged cannibalism (as in Polynesia) or the ritual mutilation of female sex organs (as in much of black Africa...
...contestants, Bobby was, well, suspicious. "I thought it was a scam," he says. "I told Vickie that as long as nobody asked for any credit cards or money, I'd go along with it." Although he had never played basketball as a kid, he planted a brand-new Slam Dunk hoop in his gravel driveway last September and began to practice. Sort of. There were interruptions, like hunting season...
...home in Beulaville these days, Vickie says things are pretty much back to normal. "Bobby hasn't picked up the basketball since we've been back," she says. On the other hand, he hasn't chopped up his Slam Dunk board either. After all, it just might come in handy: Vickie has entered him in the contest again...
...Crimson chipped away at the lead, however, and when Silas missed a dunk with 5:11 to go, Mann grabbed the rebound, got fouled and converted a free throw to pull Harvard to within...