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...from vinegar on the rocks (surprisingly addictive) to spinach juice (delicious to the last drop). A skin-care shop, a yoga studio and a spa are on the same site. If you thought Chinese medicine meant being stuck with acupuncture needles or being forced to gulp down glasses of bitter herbal brews, Red White & Pure may be the salvation you've been looking...
...footage, interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from the letters and diaries of some of the Westerners in Nanjing, performed by such Hollywood stars as Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway. One benefit of this emphasis on primary sources, says Guttentag, is that it helped distance Nanking from the bitter controversy that has sprung up over different interpretations of the massacre. "This is not a film where we had historians commenting on the incident," he says. "That's someone else's film...
...took few tests, and wrote only a few short papers during his senior year of high school. His mother allowed her children to plan out their own schedules but insisted they finish the entire textbook.“I liked the flexibility but I was always a little bitter about it,” Norberg says with mock resentment. “My friends in public school rarely finished their whole book but I often had to do school throughout the summer to finish math or science. I never once had a summer off.”HELPING THE HOMESCHOOLERS...
...discovered the fire, called the BFD and then entered the building, banging on doors to warn people to leave.When the firefighters arrived, the occupants of the building were leaving. MacDonald said that many of them came out without shoes or in their pajamas, “fleeing into the bitter cold.” BU opened its Sargent Activities Office to shelter the displaced residents—including non-BU affiliates—in a gymnasium.An MBTA bus reported to the scene of the fire to transport people to Sargent, where workers from the American Red Cross were waiting...
...have taken an exceptionally candid tone about our experiences at Oxford not because we are bitter but rather because these are things we wish we had known three years ago. As you consider pursuing fellowships and applying to Oxford, here are the questions we suggest asking. Do other universities offer the same program that you want to study at Oxford? If so, how do their faculty, library, and financial resources compare? Don’t forget finances; consider how much it would cost to live in the college you are interested in. Think about whether you mind forking out some...