Word: ballooned
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...excited it’s May: Then get ready for Harvard Square’s 26th Annual MayFair. Roam around as the neighborhood comes alive with vendors, food, activities, and performers (including our own Chester French). Don’t miss out on the Hot Air Balloon rides! ($20) Sunday, May 3, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Harvard Square, Free 5.Making a difference with your reading period free time: Help Project Bread make strides toward ending hunger in Massachusetts. The 2009 Walk for Hunger roams from the Boston Common into Newton, Watertown, and Cambridge and back again...
...expand the little box that it’s in. One of my friends used to add backgrounds to her iChats. There would be fish floating behind her head, or safari animals walking around in the background. Midway through the conversation, there would be a hot air balloon taking off behind her head. What the hell am I supposed to say to that? Cool? I’m not five years old and don’t actually believe you are in the middle of the Serengeti (because they don’t have Wi-Fi)? But I don?...
...Gist: Imagine a world where pirates run amok, blowing themselves up in European city centers; where wars are ignited over lack of drinking water; where a global face-off between Islam and Christianity makes World War II look like a water-balloon fight. According to economist and political scientist Jacques Attali, that is what the future has in store for us by 2025. In the belief that past experiences are indicative future events, Attali combs through the history of human kind, all the way back to Homo Habilis, separating the past into nine distinct periods to isolate "what is possible...
...March 23]. In President Barack Obama's two months in office, Gingrich says, he "has so far failed to turn around the economic decline." It took the Republicans eight years to get us into this mess with their nonexistent oversight of financial companies and their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much rather have tax-and-spend Democrats than borrow-and-spend Republicans...
...toward fresh produce. We don't all realize that idling our cars wastes more energy than turning them off and on, or that granola is high in fat. And some of our choices are simply bewildering, which is why it's so easy to stumble into hidden fees and balloon payments tucked in the fine print of our mortgages. Even Ph.D.s can get confused by our society's paperwork; Thaler and Sunstein tell a story in Nudge about struggling to help a health economist pick a prescription-drug plan for her parents...