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...teens' confusion is easy to understand. In addition to their shameless lollipop flavoring, bidis are smaller and weigh about two-thirds less than conventional cigarettes, so they may appear to be less substantial and therefore less noxious. But the dark Indian tobacco they contain has as much as three times the nicotine concentration of American grown. The leaf wrapping, which comes from the tendu plant, doesn't help either. Unlike the paper on a conventional cigarette, the tendu leaf is nonporous, so it prevents outside air from mixing with the inhaled smoke and diluting...
Michelle Kuo, director of the student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, seemed barely able to contain her exuberance for socializing, even while engaging in the kind of quirky behavior which secretly delights magazine writers everywhere. She simultaneously devised a three-story house of cards out of Sweet ’n Low packages and probed everyone sitting within talking radius whether they considered themselves, way deep down inside, to be “giving” people. In a pique of social energy, Kuo, at one point in the evening, spontaneously thrust herself backwards and would have toppled...
...problems. Guallar, who hails from coastal Spain, continues to flavor his paella with salmon, which has negligible mercury levels. Willett eats swordfish only about twice a month--because of its expense, not any fear of mercury. Fish-oil supplements are high in omega3 fatty acids and probably don't contain as much mercury as whole fish. But they don't taste nearly as good...
...would try to contain her and then we wanted a double [team],” Delaney-Smith said. “She’d sometimes drive and I thought you could take the charge. Katie Murphy did it, Reka tried. I think you can take the charge and rotate to where she’s going to push the ball. That was what we were supposed to be doing. We were late in our rotation, we were late to taking the charge and I don’t know why because that was our game plan...
Once you buy the team, you’ve got a number of options. You could move the team to Cambridge and have them share Blodgett Pool. If the Staples Center in Los Angeles is big enough for the Lakers and Clippers and Giants Stadium can contain both the Giants and the Jets, surely Soldiers Field could support two Ivy League swim teams...