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...TRIVIAL PURSUIT TOTALLY 80s Remember the days of Care Bears and Trapper Keepers? This new take on the original Trivial Pursuit focuses on factoids from the early Madonna years, when Rubik's Cubes were hot and Michael Jackson was still known for his music. When '80s is released next month, pop-culture buffs can finally capitalize on all those Cosby Show reruns...
...bickering inside the police van over the correct answer to a trivia question posed by Russell. While Russell does ask the questions with the provision that if the police get them wrong he’s going to kill hostages, the discussion is less hostage-negotiator and more Trivial Pursuit game gone...
...condition, Pedrosa said. “The problem is that abdominal pain is very common during pregnancy for other reasons” Pedrosa said. “The challenge for us is to be able to distinguish those situations where abdominal pain may be related to more trivial conditions...from those situations where surgical treatment is needed like acute appendicitis.” Though Pedrosa said the ultrasound remains the first tool used in diagnosis because it is fast and harmless to the fetus, when the ultrasound is inconclusive, MRIs may provide a clearer picture. “The still...
...lowly Lions of Columbia. The same Columbia squad that had one Ivy victory before last weekend shocked the top two teams in the league, sinking buzzer-beaters both times to defeat Princeton 65-64 and Penn 59-57. Although the Tigers and Quakers lost last weekend, their struggles are trivial compared to Harvard’s current three-week slide. “The first two games were buzzer-beaters,” said head coach Frank Sullivan. “But the final three were not, because the defense hasn’t been strong enough or consistent enough...
...MOMENTS LIKE THESE, SO TRIVIAL IN some ways yet so memorable in others, that can waste time on the political calendar in ways that are clear only to history. Bush and Cheney have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This...