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Perhaps the best known and most eagerly anticipated House events are those which come around but once a year: Dunster's Goat Roast, Adams' Masquerade, and Quincy's Exorcism are good examples. These are the one-night stands of House events--they feel great while they last, but they're soon forgotten. Insofar as these events are shared among most House members, they are important, but they are too infrequent to support long-lasting bonds among residents, the type of genuine friendships Lewis and others seek...
...Portuguese Institute of Archaeology, and consultant Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., claim that the 24,500-year-old remains of a four-year-old child show a mix of human and Neanderthal features. The boy could simply be the love child from a single prehistoric one-night stand--except that the last true Neanderthals had disappeared from the area at least 3,000 years earlier. Plenty of experts are unwilling to be swayed by romance, however--especially the American Museum's Ian Tattersall, who says flatly, "It's just a chunky modern kid. There's nothing...
Maybe their disinterest in one-night stands is linked to the fact that the class of 2002 drinks less beer than any other first-years in the 33 years of the survey's history. But if they're not at the bar, they're not reading the newspaper either. A record low 25.9 percent consider keeping up with politics important. Fourteen percent frequently discuss political matters...
...pocked and cratered by the scandal. The early front runners are trying to define an acceptable zone of privacy, but they find themselves in a world in which the only rule is that there are no rules. Whether and how voters react to one's past may depend on how serious it was--a one-night stand or cartwheeling adulteries? a lot of pot or a little cocaine?--and just how long ago it was. And the process by which those episodes are dug up and publicized is now a free-for-all. The Year of Monica was driven forward...
...1980s. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which publishes an annual survey on hunger and homelessness in 30 cities, says demand for emergency shelter has increased every year since the survey began in 1985, including an 11% jump in 1998. The number of people counted in Boston's annual one-night homeless census rose 40% between 1988 and 1996. Minnesota's nightly shelter population quadrupled between 1985 and 1997, and in New York City the average number of people staying in shelters climbed to 7,100 a night in 1997 after hitting a low of 6,000 in 1994. Homelessness...