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...with the same rapt fervor they invested in other favorite stories, or did they find the Carroll works dry and remote? Couldn't it be that kids were listening out of politeness to the big person sitting by their bed? Martin Gardner, author of the 1960 The Annotated Alice, thought so. "It is only because adults - scientists and mathematicians in particular - continue to relish the Alice books," he wrote, "that they are assured of immortality." Make that scientists, mathematicians and '60s potheads, who saw Alice's descent into the rabbit hole, the EAT ME cake and the mushroom-borne caterpillar...
...attitude throughout the game was just to keep playing, keep putting shots on net, keep trying to get chances,” co-captain Kathryn Farni said. “I thought we played really hard, and we took a lot of great shots...
...thought Harvard played really well,” said Big Red coach Doug Derraugh. “They were quick, they controlled a lot of the game…We got that 2-0 lead, once we got that I thought we started getting our feet and started playing better all over the ice and got a couple more...
...were trying to step up our game when we’re on the power play,” co-captain Kathryn Farni said. “[To] capitalize on that chance definitely picks up your spirits a little bit. I thought we played really hard, and we took a lot of great shots. To be rewarded for that felt awesome...
...even in Japan, whale meat isn't that popular. Though some coastal towns have hunted whale for centuries, relatively few Japanese ate whale regularly before the postwar years, which is when it took off. What changed? Blame U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation of Japan, who thought whale meat would be a cheap source of protein for an impoverished country and effectively launched the modern Japanese whaling industry. A generation of Japanese schoolchildren grew up accustomed to having whale in their lunch boxes...