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...steel-stomached, the museum offers "Scoop on Poop." This gross but hilarious exhibit explains the not-so pleasant bodily functions of burping, diarrhea and passing gas. The model toilet--complete with (you guessed it) imitation poop--is a definite favorite. Somehow, even though kids and adults alike find it repulsive, they make repeated trips to stare into the porcelain bowl...
Anderson unfolded the tale, offering his colleagues a bit of a scoop. "One thing we could do -- and my captors may be surprised to learn this -- was talk to each other." Anderson explained that he had learned sign language in high school, a one-handed alphabet that he taught the other captives, improvising new signs for those he had forgotten. On this bleak day, Anderson was relaying silent messages to Sutherland, who would pass them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Clarence Thomas. Her commentary, though a bit preachy, sounded authoritative. Totenberg had a more than normal interest in the outcome. Several committee members were demanding an inquiry into the leak that had provided Totenberg and New York Newsday's Timothy Phelps with the scoop that Anita Hill had accused Thomas of sexual harassment, which led to the hearings she was covering. Moreover, Totenberg said one reason she took the charges against Thomas seriously was that she herself had once been sexually harassed. That disclosure led to a public reopening of a painful, 20-year...
Chalk up another Crimson scoop: discovering posters that no one noticed--as they did not exist. Such an expenditure had, in fact, been proposed, but I successfully introduced an amendment that would save the $275 for uses that would better serve students, and the posters were never printed...
Nessen warned that as word gets out that the state is slightly ahead on revenues, advocates will start a "feeding frenzy" trying to scoop up money when there isn't money available...