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...being named this year’s “Iron Man” by his teammates. Every year, one freshman is chosen based on several traits, such as dedication to the team, class leadership, and hard work, to swim every race in one meet. Meyer swam in every heat of every race Saturday, logging a total of 5,350 yards—the equivalent of around three miles—despite the fact that he has missed much of this year with illness. “It’s one of the better Ironman performances...
Urban Outfitters started selling skull t-shirts, and every Hot Hot Heat listening hipster seemed to have at least one skull print item, which apparently brought them back, with fond nostalgia, to their doc marten wearing, livejournal writing days of yore...
...While cattle can survive for several days without food, the stress causes them to lose body heat. Unlike some other animals, cattle won't keep hydrated by eating snow. Nor will they turn around to follow their own paths through snow already traversed. While some reports have said the crisis has passed, a spokeswoman for the National Guard says that aircraft have not spotted the number of cattle they thought they?d find and are now anticipating the worst...
...protest has been more effective than the Legrands had imagined. Sustained media coverage has lured interested visitors and sympathizers to the canal, turning up the heat on politicians. Conservative presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy was the first to respond, issuing a vague campaign promise to virtually eradicate homelessness - a socially ambitious position for an otherwise militantly free-market candidate. Initially reticent to respond to what it snubbed as a grandstanding manipulation of unfortunates, France's conservative government returned from its Christmas break with promises to increase and improve shelter capacity for the homeless. Under personal orders of President Jacques Chirac...
...know what they say: put a frog in a pot of boiling water and he'll jump right out, but put him in a pot of lukewarm water and heat it gradually, and he'll eventually boil to death. Trouble with that is, how exactly was the second part of that experiment ever performed? It's an awfully lethargic frog that would sit in any pot of water that he could jump out of. Maybe there was a top on the pot and the frog didn't want to push the envelope...