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...foreign flavor to the International House. Salaverria explained that the franchise is very popular in America. More than 1,200 branches have opened across this country and Canada since 1958. As four Harvard juniors walked into the restaurant, two IHOP employees greeted them with jokes as corny as the bread cakes that come with dinner entrees. Two waitresses, Alicione and Priscilla, took careful notes as Lillian Ritchie ’08 ordered her Rooty Tooty Fresh’N Fruity Breakfast. The group of four included IHOP veterans and others for whom it was the very first time. Elizabeth...
...spray and those bug zappers that you plug into a power outlet, hoping it will kill all the mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...
...results of a pioneering 20-year-long study, which showed that low-carb diets--typically high in fats and proteins--don't necessarily raise the risk of coronary heart disease. The study, which tracked the health of more than 82,000 women, showed that cutting back on white bread and pasta--as advocated by the South Beach diet--doesn't boost chances of a heart attack. "The diet is healthy," says study co-author Frank...
...example, the public still sees female sexuality as taboo—porn and erotica almost exclusively target men, while most people treat female masturbation as either astonishing or shameful. Similarly, boys still grow up learning that to be a real man they have to be out winning the bread, not at home baking it with their kids. Culture tells people these differences are “natural,” and many internalize them so thoroughly that they unthinkingly adhere to them...
...city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...