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...pumpkins seriously. It fell short of its usual record-breaking display of jack-o'-lanterns last year when the townsfolk gathered a mere 27,584 carved pumpkins (1,368 below their 2003 world record). They'll be going for the gold again on Oct. 22, amid pumpkin-carving, pie-eating and seed-spitting contests, orange fireworks and lots of pumpkin soup and cookies. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...world’s resources are not a Malthusian pie, but they are absurdly distributed. Consider the following: Europeans spend $11 billion per year on ice cream—$2 billion more than it would cost to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's population. Moreover, Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion per year on pet food—$4 billion more than the additional amount needed annually to provide basic health and nutrition to the whole world...
...PIE-IN-THE-SKY THINKING...
Replete with a mechanical bull, dunk tank, cow-milking, and pie-eating, last Friday’s Harvard State Fair was a resounding success. We applaud the Office of the Dean, and particularly the duo of Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II and Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05 who planned the event, for a job well done...
...it’s instructive to follow the Penn-Princeton theory from men’s basketball. Just like the Quakers and Tigers, Harvard and Penn have a disproportional piece of the Ivy talent pie. Most years that superfluous skill will guide the two teams to a one-two finish in the league. Some seasons, however, one of the two squads will get tripped up, despite the talent disparity, and drop some winnable games. But it’s exceedingly rare—the 1999 season comes to mind—for both of the league’s giants...