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...Three stylish but casual premium-burger chains are challenging fast-food competitors with better bread and meat that goes beyond beef to free-range chicken or lamb. These 21st century joints prepare their own patties, grill them while you wait, and serve them on fresh rolls with a side of chunky homemade fries. You can even top off your meal with an American-style milkshake. The bill, starting at $5, makes these restaurants a bargain by London standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's the Beef | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...milkshake and the “Yankees” are the New York Yankees baseball team. Nor would any incoming freshman be respected if he or she did not already know that the COOP, the Harvard Cooperative Society, is pronounced as in “chicken coop.” Not every word of the book is titillating gossip. “Untangling the Ivy League: 2006” includes interviews with former Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the topics of diversity and affirmative action, but these are brief escapes from...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Another Teen College Guide | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...backlash against fast food just about wiped hamburgers off London menus. But rejoice, burger lovers: the humble patty on a bun is experiencing a renaissance. Three stylish but casual premium-burger chains are challenging fast-food competitors with better bread and meat that goes beyond beef to free-range chicken or lamb. These 21st century joints prepare their own patties, grill them while you wait, and serve them on fresh rolls with a side of chunky homemade fries. You can even top off your meal with an American-style milkshake. The bill, starting at $5, makes these restaurants a bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's the Beef | 12/3/2005 | See Source »

While graphic novels have educated, entertained and provoked their audience over the course of their brief history, rarely have they inspired hope. Yet, that is exactly the effect of Carol Tyler's Late Bloomer (Fantagraphics Books; 136 pages; $29). Unlike the typical "inspirational" prose book (e.g., the Chicken Soup series), which proffers advice on how to overcome life's challenges, Tyler's book goes one better. Late Bloomer leads by example. Like many women, Tyler put off her personal ambitions for the sake of child rearing. But now, after more than a decade of relative creative fallowness, she returns with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flowers in December | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...AIDS Coalition also created a six-foot tall papier-maché AIDS ribbon, which they put in front of the Science Center. While making the paper maché ribbon, Basilico said he thought of HAC’s main display, an AIDS ribbon made of red Christmas lights and chicken wire that is still hanging in front of Grays Hall in Harvard Yard. At night, the three-story ribbon, which took six hours to create, is easily the most conspicuous object in the Yard. “I just hope that it starts generating dialogue,” said...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AIDS Awareness Spread Via Speech, Film | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

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