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...very discriminating" - they'll accept anything of roughly the right size and smell. In the end, the engineers came up with little wheeled robots shaped like matchboxes and perfumed with eau de roach. They were programmed to have the same likes and dislikes as roaches - that is, to prefer crowds and darkness...
There, on Oct. 6, Shiftee—overcoming animosity from European judges and an audience that seemed to prefer Euro-trash techno over his experimental hip-hop sounds—captured first place in the Battle for World Supremacy...
...sausage cost $8; Polish-style duck and sour green apple, $32. Not far away, on Ulica (Polish for street) Belwederska, the Restauracja Polska-Tradycja, or Restaurant Polish-Tradition, serves saddle of deer and homemade dumplings ($20) and fresh smoked fish from the lake region ($7). For those who prefer dancing and a light (not necessarily Polish) meal, Labo, on the fashionable Ulica Mazowiecka, is among Warsaw's most popular clubs. This spring, starting on March 31, the Polish capital will be host of the International Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. In October the annual international jazz festival will be held...
...team in scoring last year. Perhaps more telling: Harvard was the only Ivy team with three players who averaged double digits in scoring last year. And the Crimson ran away with the Ivy crown.No matter the pedigree of the Player of the Year award, Delaney-Smith and company would prefer an all-expenses-paid return trip to the NCAA Tournament.“[Player of the Year is] so down on my list of focuses, to be honest,” Delaney-Smith says. “I think it’s more satisfying to win the Ivy title...
...Unless served a summons, however, Larios and Rodriguez prefer to respect barber-client privilege, especially with their bigger clients - the ones who have outgrown the chair, so to speak. Arnoldo Alem?n, the portly former president convicted on embezzlement charges, now sends a car and driver to fetch Rodr?guez to do a home haircut, for which the barber charges double, or $9. Miguel Obando y Bravo, who used to come into the shop when he was just Archbishop of Managua, started sending the car after the Pope named him cardinal...