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...member of old uppercrust Argentine high society. She could not have been more unlike my 20-year-old, Asian-American, middle-class self. This woman hobnobbed with European royalty and dined with Pavarotti in her day; I grew up pretending to be royalty (Cinderella) and dining on Publix chicken nuggets...
...Dining Services (HUDS) has been very active in its efforts to eliminate trans fats from dining hall food. All products made from scratch by HUDS no longer have trans fats after the company switched from partially hydrogenated oil in 2003. Dining hall margarine, peanut butter, muffins, cookies, and even chicken fingers and french fries all no longer contain trans fats. Of the desserts, only German chocolate brownies, Oreo cake, congo bars, and chocolate truffle do not qualify...
Chickity China the Chinese chicken, this Saturday the Barenaked Ladies had Harvard students laughin’ and kickin’. The Ladies (who are actually all male) brunched with 40 students at the home of the Adams House Masters and rocked and talked with 250 more at Lowell Lecture Hall. The Canadian rock band’s visit was the first in the new HarvardLIVE! series, a collaboration between the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Office For the Arts’ (OFA) Learning From Performers Program. The Barenaked boys were also the recipients of the first HarvardLIVE! Arts Achievement...
...CHICKEN WITH PLUMSMARJANE SATRAPIThe author of the Persepolis books continues to plumb her family history in Iran for fascinating stories. This one focuses on her great-uncle, a celebrated musician who, family lore says, decided to lie down and die after his wife broke his instrument, a tar, over her knee. Satrapi chronicles the eight remaining days of his life as he converses with his wife, his children, his friends and eventually the angel of death. Satrapi's simple black-and-white drawing style, combined with the fantastical elements of her narrative, turns Chicken with Plums into a great bedtime...
...wasn't until the 1960s that details of our physical relationship to the apes started to be understood at the level of basic biochemistry. Wayne State University scientist Morris Goodman showed, for example, that injecting a chicken with a particular blood protein from a human, a gorilla or a chimp provoked a specific immune response, whereas proteins from orangutans and gibbons produced no response at all. And by 1975, the then new science of molecular genetics had led to a landmark paper by two University of California, Berkeley, scientists, Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson, estimating that chimps and humans...