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...referendum has signaled Italy's turning from its traditional Mediterranean, clergy-dominated past toward the modern, secular social idea of northern Europe. That, at least, is what the vote meant to Turin's staid newspaper La Stampa. After the results were in, it ran a banner headline: ITALY IS A MODERN COUNTRY...
Shenker's fascination with words also leads him to delve into the technical aspects of language, and he includes pieces on linguistics and lexicography, linguists and lexicographers. He covers everything from the staid Oxford English Dictionary--where, with true British resistance to modernity, no researcher is allowed near a typewriter--to the bitterly sarcastic Great Society Dictionary, a radical guide to the vocabulary of Vietnam by a professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, at the American Heritage Dictionary, and panel of experts bickers over what is acceptable English and what...
Video games seem to have caught on fastest with college students. On some campuses, playing them is the second most popular pastime after streaking. They are popular, too, at bowling alleys, skating rinks and the like. But they also appeal to the proprietors of staid businesses that would never have permitted a standard pinball machine through the door, including some high-class restaurants and hotels. The reasons: despite a high purchase price (about $1,100), the machines are cheaper and easier to maintain than mechanical games...
Others were less amused. Staid Yale placed on probation four students who streaked. In South Carolina, State Representative John Miles suggested that streakers be sentenced to 90 days in jail and expelled from public schools. "They ought to have respect for other people," he said. Streaker Mark Bruno, at Tennessee Tech University, was fined $50 and sentenced to five weekends in the city jail. Other streaking arrests occurred in Memphis, Knoxville, Orono, Me., and Athens, Ga. As streaking spread, inevitably there were tragedies.A motorcycle streaker in Oklahoma died in a collision; one on foot was killed trying to cross...
...headline seemed out of place in the usually staid Journal of the American Medical Association. It read: "The Pain in the Arse." The article that followed was not an editorial about an annoying individual or situation, but a report by Drs. Roy Swartout and Edward Compere of El Monte, Calif, about a real illness, ischiogluteal bursitis. The ailment results when friction causes inflammation of the bursae, or small, fluid-filled sacs, in places where tendons pass over the ischia, or hipbones. Many victims feel sharp, shooting pains in the legs and a relentless, dominating ache in one or both buttocks...