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A46 THE COAST NEWS MARCH <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> by CHUCK SHEPHERD ODD FILES Doping on Ice Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti- Doping Agency to randomly test its “athletes” for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a February New York Times report. However, said the chairman of the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Association, “We do not test for beer,” because, he added, “Everyone would fail.” Icefishing is a lonel y, frigid endeavor rarely employing strength but mostly requiring guile and strategy, as competitors who disco ver advantageous spots in the lake must surreptitiously upload the hauls lest competitor s rush over to drill their own holes. Urine tests have also been run in recent years on competitors in darts, miniature golf, chess and tug-of-war, and in 2011, one chess player, two minigolfers and one tugger tested positive. Cultural Diversity — A frequent sight on Soweto, South Africa, streets recently is crowds of 12-to-15year-old boys known as “izikhotane” (“boasters”) who hang out in their designer jeans, “shimmering silk shirts, bright pink and blue shoes, and white-straw, narrow-brimmed fedoras,” according to a February BBC <strong>News</strong> dispatch. Flashing wads of cash begged from beleaguered parents, hundreds may amass, playing loud music and sometimes even trashing their fancy clothes as if to feign an indifference to wealth. Since many izikhotanes’ families are working-class survivors of apartheid, they are mostly ashamed of their kids’ behavior. “This isn’t what we struggled for,” lamented one parent. But, protested a peer - pressured boaster, “(Y)ou must dress like this, even if you live in a shack.” — India’s annual “Rural Olympics” might be the cultural equivalent of se veral Southern U.S. “Redneck Olympics” but taken somewhat more seriously, in that this year, corporate sponsorships (Nokia and Suzuki) helped fund the equivalent of about $66,000 in prize money for such events as competitive pulling using only one’s ears or teeth. “We do this f or money, trophies, fame and respect,” one ear-puller told <strong>The</strong> Wall Street Journal in February. This year, in the four-day event in Punjab state, the 50,000 spectator s could watch a teeth-lifter pull a 110-pound sack upward for about eight seconds and an ear-puller ease a car about 15 feet. — Weird Japan: (1) A generous local businessman recently graced the city of Okuizumo with funding for replicas of two Renaissance statues (“Venus de Milo” and Michelangelo’s “David”) for a public park. Agence France- Presse reported in February that many residents, receiv- ing little ad vance warning, expressed shock at the unveiling of “David” and demanded that he at least be given underpants. (2) Fax machines, almost obsolete in the U.S., are still central to many techsavvy Japanese families and companies (who bought 1.7 million units last year alone), reported <strong>The</strong> New York Times in February. Families prefer faxes’ superiority to e-mail for warmly expressing Japan’s complex written language, and bureaucrats favor faxes’ preserving the imperative of paper flow. Readers’ Choice (1) Two brothers, celebrating a winning lotter y ticket in Wichita, Kan., in February, bought a stash of marijuana, but then, attempting to light a bong using butane lighter fluid, one accidentally blew up the family home. That brother was hospitalized with second-degree burns, and the other was arrested for marijuana possession. (2) Megan Thode, 27, went to trial in February in Easton, Pa., suing Lehigh Uni versity, accusing a pr ofessor of i llegally discriminating against her with a C- plus grade in a class in 2009 i n the sc hool’s graduate counseling program, in which a B w as the minimum required to continue. Thode demanded $1.3 million for future damage to her career (but not a tuition refund — as she had matriculated for free because her father is a Lehigh professor). Four days after the trial began, the judge ruled against her.
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