Word: swaps
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...come on to one another for precisely three minutes before a bell sends them shuffling over to the next table. Salsa dancing and games (tarot cards, anyone?) are also on offer. Daters mark their card if they find someone interesting, and if the attraction is mutual the pair can swap e-mails later. For those who don't connect, three minutes is (relatively) painless. Over two nights last week, 3,000 single people gathered at London's Vinopolis wine museum for what can only be considered the speed dating World Cup. Time dispatched two intrepid correspondents to the desiring line...
...satellite radio systems, which pick up hundreds of better-than-FM-quality stations, wowed the crowds last year. This year satellite radio has stepped out of the car. XM released a "Sky-Fi" boom box with a tiny receiving dish for $229. The receiver is detachable, so you can swap it in and out of your car. Rival Sirius has gone for the home hi-fi approach; $299 satellite-radio components should be available this July...
Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, the student responsible for launching the site, was also the driving force behind this fall’s lecturer-swap in Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory.” Greenspan managed to amass a persuasive stack of complaints about Lecturer of Economics Robert H. Neugeborn ’81 after Economics Department Chair Oliver Hart told The Crimson, “If one person complains and no one else does, we’re probably not going to respond. There has to be some sort of critical mass...
...Mostly, though, the Minsk Club is all about the rallies, where aficionados ride out to the countryside to roast pigs and swap stories. It was at a recent gathering that enthusiasts sacrificed a reviled Honda Dream to the god of Minsk. Of course, the Dream thrown into the pig-roast blaze was a miniature paper model used in Vietnamese funeral ceremonies, not a full-size scooter. Then again, with devotion like this, it's hard to put anything past these true believers...
Speaking of vertically challenged athletes, I give thanks to the fact that Mike Hampton will carry his hefty 6.15 ERA down from the heights of the Rockies to the sea-level splendor of Atlanta, following a three-team swap that included the Marlins...