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Although few would expect such a zany display in this most hallowed of Harvard’s halls, yesterday’s festivities continue the Ig Nobles’ time-honored tradition of recognizing distinguished humorous academic research and scientific discovery...
...Midwest Grill is an incidental sideshow. The restaurant has a vague cowboy feel, with many quasi-artistic representations of cattle and a large number of equestrian accoutrements. In fact, should selling meat ever become uneconomical, The Midwest Grill certainly has enough leather products on display to immediately relaunch itself as Cambridge’s premier S&M supply store. As it is, however, the wall hangings do enough to convince doubtful patrons that the Midwest to which the title refers is not the repressed and repressive setting of American Gothic, but some exotic, mythical land in the Southern Hemisphere, where...
...Burma—which arbitrarily renamed the country Myanmar in 1989—has long been considered a human rights pariah within the international community. Burma seized the world’s attention in 1988 when the dictatorship massacred thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrating for democracy. In a further display of contempt for democratic ideals, the SPDC held free elections in 1990, naively believing that it would win. When the opposition won all but 10 out of 485 seats in the People’s Assembly, however, the SPDC imprisoned or killed members and supporters of the democratically-elected party...
...driving from her Los Angeles home to San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif., to follow up on rumors of Beanie supply; attending Beanie conventions; and frequenting a tiny Barstow, Calif., shop where she finds rare Beanies. "It's a supplier. It's like drugs!" she laughs. With display cases in her living room, a Beanie MasterCard, magazine subscriptions, T shirts, mugs and pens, and clothes for the toys, Henry knows she's somewhat infatuated. "It ends up this crazy competitive thing," she says...
...finalists played the game while cracking jokes and telling the judges about themselves, trying to display a certain star quality they hoped would ensure them the nomination...