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...Yankees-Red Sox games get so high that during the closing innings of the sixth game of this year's play-offs, when police had to ring the field, veteran fans scarcely batted an eye. In Philadelphia, fans frustrated by the team's awful play once famously booed Santa Claus during half time. Behavior at Eagles games got so bad that officials seven years ago set up an on-site court in Veterans Stadium--with a jail--to handle the worst offenders. Eagles president Joe Banner says the jail only "moderately improved" behavior at the Vet; it took a move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fans and Players and Playing So Rough | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...drive home and call Lionel, which gives me the names of two catalog companies. Both places are sold out until the new year, although a customer-service manager chirpily tells me that if I'm patient, she will send me a free holiday boxcar with Santa on top to put under the tree. Frantic, I dial hobby shops across the country. Nobody has the train, and some owners share theories why. Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Desperately Seeking Santa | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...like properties that may help people with Type 2 diabetes. A small study in Pakistan showed that 30 patients with diabetes had significantly lower blood levels of glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol after taking cinnamon for 40 days. In a separate study, however, scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Sansum Medical Research Institute found that not all cinnamon is created equal. While some varieties had no impact, others lowered blood-glucose levels in studies of obese mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A To Z | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...also like to see the football team go to the playoffs. I understand that you’re Santa, not God, but I’d love it if you could at least...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McGINN 'N TONIC: Santa, Please Bring Back Harvard’s Football Coach | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...superstar junior execs this year, Ravi helped ensure that every ITM had a photo—several photos even. He’s got the smooth attitude FM requires and the careful perfectionism FM wants. Will he dance with a moving Santa on production nights? Demand Viking hats be included in every issue? That has yet to be determined...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Guard | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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