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Sports and historical writing usually attract very different audiences. The topics are on opposite sides of Barnes and Noble’s: 13-year-old boys with Yankees caps and cracking voices pour over A-Rod stats in one aisle and 50-year-old bespectacled men in tweed make pithy comments in another...
...morning, and the day is cold and rainy--conditions that, biologically, make it nearly impossible for the average teenager to function. Yet the 10 boys and eight girls who pour into the first-period Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus class at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, N.J., seem remarkably alert. Maybe it's the influence of Victorina Wasmuth, their peppy, diminutive math teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve...
Modeled on Seinfeld's kitchen, stores in a new chain of cereal-only cafés sport cabinets stuffed with 33 types of cereal and 34 toppings, from dried blueberries to Pop Rocks. Cereality customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their milk--soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Ariz., flagship, "Cereologists"--pajama-clad servers--serve up plain old corn flakes as well as fancier combos. Among their popular concoctions: Devil Made Me Do It, combining Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls. On Nov. 29, a 1,500-sq.-ft. Philadelphia outpost...
Mass Ave. stood eerily quiet last night as students crowded in front of TVs to watch results pour in from the rest of the country...
Though still a largely underground band, Death Cab is unavoidably reaching new territory, a strange land where die-hard fans sometimes run away and new pop fans pour in. Certainly there were many new fans at Tuesday’s show, but just how many and what that means is unclear. This next year is going to be a very significant time in Death Cab’s path, especially with rumors of major label activity that recall the recent mainstream leap of Modest Mouse. Small decisions at this stage can have major impacts. But if Death Cab can stay...