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Though some researchers say the sexual spree of the '20s was confined to big cities and campuses, the famous study, Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd, found otherwise. By the middle of the decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during...
There was violence as well in Kosovo. In the predominantly Serbian town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, a hand grenade was thrown into the yard of a U.N.-occupied building, causing slight damage and injuring no one. Another grenade was found unexploded nearby, a U.N. police spokesman said...
...Making the situation worse is that the Hornets have never really fit in with a town that already lost one sad hoops franchise, the New Orleans Jazz, to Utah almost 30 years ago. The team slipped into New Orleans in 2002, when co-owners Shinn and Ray Wooldridge moved the team from Charlotte after years of fighting the city for a new arena (in early 2005, Shinn bought Wooldridge's stake in the franchise). The team struggled to draw fans in the Crescent City, and after just three seasons Katrina forced the Hornets to fly off to Oklahoma City...
...championship game on Jan. 7, which was played in New Orleans and featured LSU, the Hornets averaged 11,871 fans. Since then, they've averaged 13,806, and they actually had a sellout crowd of 17,230 last weekend against the Memphis Grizzlies, not exactly a major out-of-town draw...
...boasting "World's Best Grandma," or a young girl wearing a shirt lamenting "Stripping ruined my life." I've seen an old woman in "I Love AC/DC," an indigenous grandmother with a shirt bragging, "My boyfriend is hotter than yours," and another disclosing that "My boyfriend is out of town...