Word: bacon
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...example, the Frenchman Jean Nicolet left Quebec in search of China and discovered Green Bay, Wis.) Meanwhile, Franciscan missionary diplomats sent by the Pope to seek an alliance with the Khan against Islam brought back a black powder to a fellow Franciscan, the Oxford scientist Roger Bacon, the first European to write about gunpowder...
...truths that Jefferson famously declared to be "self-evident" were not new. He drew his ideas from an extraordinarily wide range of reading, especially from the works of Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke, and from the Scottish moral philosophers--Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, David Hume, Adam Smith...
...people in our graduating class. Coming to Harvard, it was just sheer size difference. I had never met a total stranger in my life until I came to Harvard. Or, it would be like, OK, my grandfather knows your grandfather. It's like seven degrees of separation, Kevin Bacon, but it's really like two degrees of Kevin Bacon. I guess I was characterized as a jock in high school. I played basketball, volleyball and track and did rodeo in the summers. It was normal: If you were sports-inclined, you would do it all the time. I guess...
...defying the laws of physics. Our body weight is the simple net sum of calories (from whatever source) ingested and expended. When we consume more than we burn, we get fat; when we burn more than we consume, we lose weight. If Dr. Atkins eats 6,000 calories of bacon cheeseburgers a day, he will soon become the blubber ball that so many Americans are. THOMAS M. GINN, M.D. Salisbury...
...nation has a split personality when it comes to consumption and the results of that consumption. We are constantly bombarded by mixed messages. Scrawny, undernourished models peek out from billboards adjacent to giant signs announcing the return of Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt. We are told to "Have it your way!" "Super size it!" and "Obey your thirst!" But mixed in with the chorus of "Consume, consume!" are the plaintive cries to "Stop the insanity!" Is it any surprise we wash down our Big Macs with Diet Cokes? The only people satisfying the insatiable needs of the capitalist machine...