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Abrahams started the annual Ig Nobel ceremony in 1991 with the support of Warren Seamans, director of the MIT museum. The prizes are a legacy from the estate of the legendary Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, the inventor of excelsior (packing material) and co-inventor of soda...
Food can be a precise indicator of the potential success and edification of participating in a particular group. Use the following scale at the typical introductory meeting: Empty room--Avoid Like Plague; dining hall--Use Extreme Skepticism; chips, cookies, soda--Come to Next Meeting; fancy hors d'oeuvres--Volunteer for Door-Dropping; free beer--You Want to Be President...
...Harvard's first-year classes have trooped down to the Union basement after dinner for a dessert of pinball and pool. However, members of the Class of 1998 who ventured down stairs last week found the room shut down, with the rec area's electrical equipment, video games and soda machine all unplugged...
...Castro's fall as an endless vista of shiny, neon-lighted fast-food joints. The crumbling, once graceful seafront is still a long way from that plastic vision. Potuombo gestures at the crowd in his cafe, who are placidly consuming not Whoppers or Big Macs but the tepid brown soda that is the sole item on his depleted menu. "These are the real Cubans," he proclaims. "These are the people who will defend the revolution despite the limitations of the moment...
Nearby, Jesus, a 31-year-old bank teller, shelters himself from the storm beneath the facade of Old Havana's Almacenes Lux department store. The Lux is filled with busy people buying soap from Mexico, soda from Venezuela, baby strollers from Europe, and shoes, clothes and neon-color backpacks, some made in the U.S. The buyers are Cubans with dollars, but Jesus has none. He lacks relatives in America and does not work in a dollar-paying job. Is he bothered by his deprivation? He shrugs. "It's in the nature of the poor to covet what the rich have...