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...even weirder. At a British pub in Moscow, the promoters once brought in a lemon-shaped kiddie pool for a "bobbing for Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...
Amongst the cutthroat competition of the mom-and-pop music stores that litter Mass. Ave, Tower Records somehow manages to stay in business, proving that multimillion-dollar corporations can still survive in alternative-era Boston...
...educating women scientists. No woman smart enough to be a Harvard student can fail to note that she is unlikely to have much of a chance at the kind of science career that is being modeled so attractively for men. It is also possible that the admissions process somehow fails to identify enough promising women science students. In addition, there are persistent reports of women being discouraged by some faculty members' disparaging attitudes...
...Newt Gingrich to realize the historic Republican takeover of the House. But last year, in perhaps Paxon's most eventful year, he seemed poised to challenge both Gingrich and Majority Leader Dick Armey for their positions. While Paxon's most recent connivances have come to no avail, he has somehow emerged from the controversy with a surprisingly positive public image...
...more golds in 16 days than it had won in 70 years of Winter Games. Ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki assured himself of heartthrob status by flying away with three medals; more movingly, Masahiko Harada, who had let glory slip away in his final jump in two consecutive Olympics, somehow pulled off the longest jumps in Olympic history in two consecutive events to claim redemption. Roar after roar ran through the crowd, larger than in all the other arenas combined, and the grand swelling of emotion in a people not usually demonstrative touched even foreign hearts...