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...everyone on campus shared that noble perspective, with 23% of students saying porn should never be screened publicly on campus, according to a poll by the student newspaper, The Diamondback. But before undergraduates could settle the debate, state senator Andrew Harris threatened on April 2 to get the legislature to strip all $400 million in state funding from the campus if Pirates were screened in a nonacademic setting. Administrators canceled the showing that day. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...event, which was held in a lecture hall and probably won't endanger the university's funding because of its educational components, helped earn the screening's co-organizer, sophomore Malcolm Harris, an endorsement for student-body president in The Diamondback. Administrators at College Park called the rebel screening "characteristic of a vibrant educational community." Meanwhile, another University of Maryland campus, in Baltimore County, has scheduled a screening in solidarity...
...been abandoned. The biggest man-made threat to the endangered monk seal of Hawaii is entanglement in derelict fishing gear, according to Keith Criddle, a marine-policy professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles. In a 2004 report titled An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy found that at least 267 different species were affected by derelict fishing gear, including 86% of all species of sea turtles. "Fishing gear is intended to catch things...
Jackie Bibby, a.k.a. "The Texas Snake Man," had four records, including sitting in a bathtub with 81 rattlesnakes and sharing a sleeping bag with 109. He earned a fifth last week, holding ten 212-ft. Western diamondback rattlesnakes in his mouth...
Each contestant lifts her leg gracefully to show her famed decorated shoes: Iowa’s pig and corn pair, Arizona’s Diamondback snake wrapped around her calves. Heads move in quarter turns, and smiles remain frozen wide for the entire four mile stretch of the Boardwalk. Between the queens are South Jersey Vietnam veterans, wary police officers circling on bikes, the trucks of local businesses, and something preternaturally perky called “The Miss America Bike Team...