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...George Gordon, Lord Byron, staged an elaborate practical joke on a friend. Knowing that a recent earthquake had frightened the friend badly, Byron sent fifty men into the basement of the house where they were staying, with instructions to jump up and down. Meanwhile, other men were dispatched to roll cannonballs back and forth across the upstairs rooms. The friend fled the shuddering house, terrified...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: What Would Byron Do? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

Massage therapy is on a roll. A new survey found that 12% of adult Americans got a massage last year, a number destined to go up as the population gets increasingly creaky. Top reasons for the laying on of hands: stress relief (27%), pain relief (27%), relaxation (25%) and injury (11%). Ten percent didn't know why they came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Say Ahh, Poor Yorick | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...time teams in other conferences that will find themselves and just start clicking at the end of the year, and become something like a Cinderella team,” Cusworth said. “I’m not about to make any of the Ancient Eight founders roll in their grave trying to start up anything. We’ve come to terms with...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: One Final Hurrah | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

Guitar manipulator Omar Rodriguez, co-frontman of the Mars Volta, swears that their new album, Frances The Mute, was completed without any needles, pipes, or bottles. This may be a rock and roll first...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Music: Frances the Mute | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

Inside, we listen with the drunk and stoned Swedes. But now, we roll deep. We’re a family of strangely dressed, drunken, threatened kids. People hug each other. The band seems boring in comparison...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Learned From Doc | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

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