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...doubtless many Oreophiles who would call a project to improve America's favorite cookie a form of heresy. None of them work for Peter Wilson, senior director of technology at Kraft Foods. Wilson and his team of food scientists and engineers have invested 30,000 hours in trying to convert the Oreo we know and love into one that tastes just like the original but is considerably less likely to clog snackers' arteries. The challenge: rid the recipe of its trans-fatty acids, a component of the fats as essential to the cookie's cream-infused crunch and texture...
...Harvard played strong for the first 30 minutes of the game, making Brown work for every possession. The Crimson even managed to get two free kicks just outside of the penalty box in the beginning of play, but both opportunities proved fruitless as Harvard was unable to convert. “We did get some good opportunities,” said senior captain and defender Will Craig. “That final touch, we just didn’t seem to have that today.” The Bears’ winning goal came at 17:39 in the first...
...Crimson also left points on the board early, as it failed to convert on four shots at a touchdown from within the Lafayette three early in the second quarter. Harvard turned the ball over on downs after O’Hagan was stopped from one yard out on a quarterback keeper...
...than any one campus band, and a cappella concerts fill Sanders Theatre on a regular basis.Is this because we, as a student body, possess an innate inability to rock out? Or is there some precondition for rock missing that, if present, would reverse the bulldozers’ direction and convert Harvard into an extension of rock-friendly Allston?Intuition makes the former seem unlikely, as Harvard has produced its fair share of successful rock musicians. Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Class of 1998, is the most prominent recent example. But he didn’t start at Harvard until...
...expanded its stock. His older brother, however, has been less fortunate. Sam A. Yagan ’99, president of MetaMachine, the company that distributes the peer-to-peer program eDonkey, announced at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Sept. 28 that his company would “convert eDonkey’s user base to an online content retailer operating in a closed P2P environment.” He did so in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which threatened immediate litigation unless MetaMachine blocked the sharing of copyrighted content...