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...confined to a small cage with seven other chickens. Inside this cell, the chicken was either “shocked” through starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...
While overall Harvard hung close with the talented NYU squad, the team was unable to pull off the upset...
Senior Mark Riddell—who lost his doubles match with partner Brandon Chiu in disappointing 8-6 fashion—hung on for a 6-2, 7-6 (4) victory to complete the singles sweep. Riddell had run away with the first set and held a 4-2 advantage in the second but needed a tiebreak for the victory...
...like dropping $100 bills in a taxicab. If you can't get to the game, the only real choices are to give them to friends, haggle with rapacious brokers, join the scalpers out in front of the arena or put the seats on eBay, where you could still get hung out to dry. It's the same raw deal for those hoping to buy seats to sold-out events--find a seller by happenstance or overpay the brokers and scalpers. And the teams never get a share of the increased value of a $100 play-off ticket that zooms...
...imitates a famous cut from 2001. When Alex’s mother wants to watch television, Alex and Denis film hours of fake news footage to reassure her that change is not coming too quickly into her comfortable world. When she notices a banner for Coca-Cola being hung on a nearby building, Alex, barely missing a beat, explains that a recent discovery has proven the socialist origins of Coca-Cola (backed by news footage, again, courtesy of Denis...