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...Guinness lent its name to a TV series hosted by David Frost, which was later broadcast on India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined...
With the loss, Harvard suffered its fifth setback of the year. Yesterday, Cornell swept Penn and finished its Ivy schedule with a 10-4 mark, thereby knocking out all teams with five losses. Brown also has only four losses, and will host a doubleheader against Yale next weekend...
...Crimson swept all five races contended on the day and next rows against crosstown rival No. 4 Northeastern next Saturday to close its duals season...
Harvard drew first blood by taking the doubles matches. Sophomores Eva Wang and Melissa Anderson swept their match 8-0 to jump ahead, but the Bulldogs answered back when Stephanie White and Olivia Nix won at No. 3 singles, 8-6. In No 1 singles the pairing of juniors Bergman and Susanna Lingman finished out with a 9-7 win to take the point...
...rumor got started in the Baltic states last month, then swept across all of Central and Eastern Europe. Alzbeta Santúrová, a retiree who lives in the south Slovak village of Bajc, heard one version of it last week: the price of sugar was about to skyrocket from the current 98? per kilo to around $1.34. So Santúrová is stocking up; she is buying 50 kg. "I am afraid," says Santúrová, 65, who lives on a $170-a-month pension. "I need at least 60 kg of sugar to make wine every...