Word: ig
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Amidst a constant barrage of paper airplanes and beach balls, the editor of a science-humor magazine presented this year's Ig Nobel awards last night for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced...
Also in absentia was Dolores Kreiger, ProfessorEmerita at New York University, who received theScience Education Ig Nobel for "demonstrating themerits of therapeutic touch," a method by which acaretaker manipulates the energy fields of ailingpatients by carefully avoiding physical contactwith patients...
Plastic tape and duct tape festooned Sanders Theatre last night for "The Eighth, First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," as the event was billed...
Members of the audience, which filled Sanders, were dressed in duct tape garb, threw paper airplanes and chanted phrases such as "Ig, Ig, Ig," at various moments throughout the evening. An operetta titled "La Forza del Duct Tape" was performed in three parts...
...Ig Nobel Award for Safety Engineering went to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ont., for "developing and personallytesting a suit of armor impervious to grizzlybears...