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...first-year roommates had never been out of the Eastern Standard Time zone, much to O’Mary’s shock. “When I was growing up,” he says, “three time zones seemed pretty close...
...Pennsylvania players, on the other hand, have a brilliant reputation to live up to. They have been going like wild-fire, beating Yale and the crack team of the University of Arizona, visiting in this section as the polo champions of the Southwest. They may shock some of the more staid members of the polo-playing community...
Riding the wave of victories over Dartmouth and Brown last weekend, the Crimson headed into this weekend’s championships at Metedeconk Golf Course in Jackson, N.J. poised to shock the world of college golf and take the title from defending champion Yale...
...cash, their shares have soared in the past year. XM is up 379%; Sirius, 491%. Analyst April Horace of Janco Partners in Denver predicts that within five years 16 million Americans will be listening to satellite radio. She says the market would explode if a popular shock jock like Howard Stern were to defect with his 15 million listeners, a prospect that looked more likely last week after six traditional stations dropped his show following an FCC proposal to fine their corporate parent, Clear Channel Communications, $495,000 for airing his "indecent" content...
...affects not just you but many others. When your driving habits lead to higher levels of pollution, when your ownership of a gas-inhaling 2-ton SUV puts others on the road at risk, when traffic jams drastically reduce the country's productivity (as well as make radio shock jocks into millionaires), don't you think you might give a little back in return? To paraphrase the President, can't we shift from a philosophy of "If it feels good, do it" to one of responsibility...