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...heard of the South Beach (Florida) diet. Now get ready for the latest plans from California's Sonoma County and New York City's Park Avenue. Based on the particular tastes of each locale, these new regimens aim to make dieting more palatable by mixing snob appeal with an occasional glass of Pinot. Here's a look at the "destination diets" and a few other weight-loss books worth sampling...
...innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors (simple) and then to manipulate them back the way they were (not simple) ... A woman in West Germany who gave her husband the cube for Christmas is seeking a divorce because of it. Her complaint: 'My husband hardly speaks to me ... when...
...Dear Larry” letter that “Harvard’s best interests require your resignation.”The president’s spokesman, John Longbrake, declined to comment on Ellison’s remarks.PLAYING FAVORITESEllison, a biological anthropologist, also took aim at what he called Summers’ “presidential favoritism” of certain academic disciplines.In a phone interview, Ellison recalled that Summers had asked him and his colleagues to prepare a proposal for ways in which the University could concentrate more on biological anthropology and less on social anthropology...
...square-foot facility, at 688 Huron Ave., was owned by the Mount Auburn Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) until last December, when the city purchased it for $2.9 million with the aim of expanding it into a youth and community center...
...building. “Did the goalie touch it at all?” Du said after the fact. “I thought I just hit the crossbar.” Post-game opinions differed, and so he concluded with a smile, “a little mis-aim there.” No matter, anyway. Teammate Jon Pelle sealed the game-winning one-timer 1:46 into the extra frame, and Du still had a hat trick to savor, a goal in every regulation period of the Crimson?...