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Gather three of your most courageous friends and stuff your faces in the Harvard division of Qdoba’s annual burrito-eating contest. If you emerge victorious, you’ll have the opportunity to vie against other schools for a trip to Mexico...
...real world beyond graduation. As one principal remarked, “Where the schools fail, the streets will take over,” and all involved parties can only look on with a sense of helplessness, caught in a diabolical waiting game as the schools and the streets vie for the hearts and mind of the children...
Have they ever. In truly pizza-crazed cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago, fanatical artisans vie with one another to see who can be most slavishly faithful to the principles of Vera Pizza Napoletana, the final word in pizza purity. But even in less food-obsessed American cities, various brick-oven restaurants compete for the approval of a fickle, pizza-geek public that looks closely at everything from the sourcing of the fior de latte to the presence of "tip sag" issues with the crust. A recent post at Slice, the king of pizza blogs, states, "The crust...
...SUNDAY Catch Kyrgyzstan's national sport, ulak tartysh, at the hippodrome on the west side of town. Teams of riders vie to grab the corpse of a headless goat from the ground at full gallop and heave it into a vat. The big contests are held during the Nooruz Festival (March 21) and Kyrgyz Independence Day (Aug. 31), but smaller events take place at other times...
...York (there are five others in Yorkshire) was inspired by the interior of the Queen Mary cruise liner, and is a grand concoction of burnished oak paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows and ornate mirrors. Yorkshire specialties such as hot buttered pikelets - a kind of thick pancake - and fruit scones vie for menu space with cakes, pastries and hot meals. See 10 things to do in London...