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...phenomenon. When a pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game that launched a million junior high school wedgies...
...money--and calories--are in a la carte, branded items, which schools often mark up 50% to 100%, and sodas from vending machines. Consider the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, which managed to entice students and their pocketbooks into the cafeteria by offering Chick-fil-A, Subway and Papa John's products. While Northside's federal lunches sell for $1.75, a single 7-in. slice of Papa John's goes for $2, more than twice what the district pays...
...have to wait until the free trade agreement takes effect in 2004. It's not clear if the U.S. gum lobby pushed for the change, or if Singapore is just tired of being an international punchline. Restrictions have been in effect since 1992, after pranksters started wedging wads into subway doors, gumming up the public transit system. The Lion City isn't going soft. Using a public toilet without flushing still carries a $284 fine. Drive into Malaysia with a tank of gas less than three-quarters full: $1,136. Walk around your house naked: another...
...HUPD officer responded to a report of an assault by means of a dangerous weapon in Harvard Yard. The victims reported that they were harassed and threatened with a knife by eight juveniles. Several of the juveniles were detained at the Church Street subway station and identified by the victims. An officer arrested one juvenile male for assault with a dangerous weapon and threats to commit a crime...
Although the group initially consisted of eight suspects, HUPD only stopped five—the others escaped onto the subway, despite HUPD and the Cambridge Police Department’s searches of the trains...