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...some Tuesday soon, we'll all stroll into spacious well-attended polling places, after a nice breakfast with the family, talking politics, and swipe our voter-ID card and blip in our candidates and press enter, and go home feeling confident our vote's been cast, whistling a happy tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year's Voting Resolution? | 12/24/2000 | See Source »

...Breakfast. Again, the decadence is in the preparation. First, the survey of goods: oranges, pears, eggs, various kinds of cheese and sausage, two kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar, appropriate spices, pots and pans of all sizes and appropriate machinery. Second, the slow and deliberate assembly (see #4). Finally, the open-ended consumption of the meal: half-an-omelette, walk the dog, read the paper, crepe, bubble bath, write a paper, walk the dog, hot chocolate with steamed milk, write column...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Decadence | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...know the cereal you had for breakfast is genetically modified? Those corn flakes just aren't natural. The thing is, no corn that we would recognize is in a strict sense natural. Corn started off as a small grassy plant with an inch-long fruit. Native-Americans and later, mid-western farmers manipulated the plant's genetic code to increase the size of the fruit and make the plant more hardy. These genetic modifications, of course, happened before any understanding...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: The Myth of Frankenfoods | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

Following another early morning postering run in the Yard, many candidates ate breakfast in Annenberg Hall yesterday, making a first attempt at reaching the crucial first-year vote. The majority of voters in past elections have been first-year students...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Race Opens, Council Tickets Vie for Votes | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...NONRECALCITRANT TOASTER: Somebody soon is bound to smash the worldwide small-household-appliance cartel's plot to foist $50 toasters built with 10[cent] engineering on a groggy breakfast-time America. The prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Inventions I Hope I Never See | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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