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While some of the Houses have stuck with the tried and true this holiday season—with dining halls adorned in colored lights, tinsel, wreaths, and ribbons—Cabot House has outdone them all with a nine-foot aluminum pole. The unadorned pole is one of the many trappings of the secular holiday Festivus, popularized by the sitcom “Seinfeld” during a 1997 episode entitled “The Strike.” Frank Costanza, father of the recurring character George Costanza, claims to have invented the holiday as a protest against the commercialization...
...road for meals. “I’ve never seen anyone eat more in my life,” Stone says. Her love for hockey is such that she now has a permanent reminder of Olympic glory—a tattoo on the top of her foot. “I always wanted a tattoo,” Chu says. Her father, Wah Chu, made her a promise, she says: if she made the Olympic team in 2002, she could get one, and he would, too. “He upholds his deals,” Chu explains...
...truth, the eight-foot white marble sarcophagus that Vatican archaelogists uncovered beneath the basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls is more a question of lost-and-found than a brand-new find. The Church has known that a relic believed to be the first-century saint, who wrote the earliest books of the New Testament and was Christianity's first great evangelist, was somewhere beneath the current basilica. But around 1823, the year that a previous, ancient church on the location burned down, they lost track of it. Interest was rekindled four years ago when many Catholics streamed into Rome...
...getting hard to find many Americans who remember where they were the last time men set foot on the moon. Not only had most of us quit paying attention to lunar landings by then, but 48% of us hadn't even been born by December 1972, when the last moon walkers left the lunar surface and headed for home...
...Internet site CNET, 11 days after he and his family were stranded in the snow following a series of wrong turns while driving near the Oregon coast on vacation; of hypothermia; in Josephine County, Ore. Rescuers found his body last Wednesday, four days after he set out on foot to seek help for wife Kati and their daughters Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. With temperatures in the 20s, Kim eventually left the road and climbed down a hill. Had he kept walking in the direction the car had been headed, he would have found a lodge a mile away...