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...knew something his friends didn't: the Internet loves cats. Especially cats who are dressed in embarrassing outfits and forced to perform human activities (such as eating dinner with a fork). Suddenly, keyboard cat started popping up all over YouTube. People attached the cat to the end of already popular videos - like this and this. Someone even started a website that would attach the keyboard cat to a video of one's choosing. The musical feline had become a star, and Johnson decided to aggregate its videos on a blog. People made requests and submitted their own mash-ups. Play...
...loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. This is one country where many insurgents would drop their weapons if someone paid them to do something other than fight. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor's likeness can be found at makeshift gyms throughout the city, which use cinder blocks and old Soviet tank parts for equipment. To many young Afghans, Schwarzenegger embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer...
...best initial solution in a country where Taliban commanders, financed by opium and other illegal activities, are buying the loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul, and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. To many young Afghans, he embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never arrived. Ralph Lopez, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...
...projector screen during class and ask students to grade their own classmates’ papers. At a recent meeting of one of his spring “American Jury” classes, Nesson sat in the audience watching as a group of his students showed a clip from the popular reality show “Survivor” and then conducted a mock trial based on the show’s “tribal council” rules while candy-incentives circulated for those participating. The marijuana laws seemed to be something of a running joke with the students?...
...club activity, but if you are looking for one of America's most popular college sports, look no farther than the MAC quad on a sunny day. Frisbee, which boasts levels ranging from casual throwing to "ultimate" competition, has nestled its way into the collegiate mainstream with hundreds of teams across the nation. The highest echelon of this burgeoning sport was on display last weekend, as Harvard's two "A" squads—the men's Redline and women's Quasars—traveled to Hanover, N.H. to compete in the New England College Regionals. To see how the Crimson...