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...officially existed for most of the past 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our time with problems that are a hangover from the last century...
Amidst clouds of smoke, irreverent humor and vigorous audience participation, the 1992 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night at MIT's Kresge Auditorium...
...pseudo-scientific Journal of Irreproducible Results awards the much-coveted Ig Nobel Prizes to people whose accomplishments "should not or could not be reproduced...
Also in attendance: an assortment of "experiments" clad in shiny radiation-proof suits, the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and Harvard's very own Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics and actual recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics...
Wearing a jaunty sailor's cap and hamming it up admirably, Glashow handed out the Ig Nobel prizes to the esteemed recipients...