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...from under your chin.) Tommy Thompson's main photo has him standing with a bunch of black kids and giving them a double thumbs-up, as if to tell us that despite whatever you may have heard, Thompson totally approves of black children. His site, however, does have a cool function where people Twitter--write short messages that blink on a map of wherever they're from. Over five minutes, I saw these Twitters...
...days of Cannes so far, and 10 days of radiant sunshine. Is this a meteorological record? How do the gorgeous tomatoes grow in the South of France without rain? Yet just this afternoon, the weather turned from hot and sunny to cool and breezy; now the skies are as gray as the palette in an Eastern European minidrama. The change went unnoticed by many festivalgoers, because they're gone; just one week of this 12-day bash is enough for them. Still, there are enough lifers who stick it out - for Cannes is a storyline that's not resolved until...
...classes in the course catalogue had words that, as far as I knew, did not exist in the English language. You can understand my trepidation when I read about classes such as Biophysics 360, “Enzymatic Mechanisms and Antibiotic Biosynthesis.” While that class seemed cool (sounded like you’d be spending the semester experimenting with DNA of super-humans or radioactive mutants or something) it did not seem like the type of class that would yield an “easy A.” The CUE Guide was also a little disconcerting...
LONG BEFORE IT WAS COOL TO decry junk food, culinary historian Karen Hess bluntly assessed the state of U.S. cuisine, skewering such sacred cows as Julia Child and James Beard. "Our palates have been ravaged, our food is awful," she wrote in the 1977 book, The Taste of America. "Our most respected authorities ... are poseurs." In later works, Hess pioneered the academic study of food, insisting on primary sources and illuminating Colonial cooking habits in books like Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, which had remained in the former First Lady's family for generations and was annotated by Hess...
...order to elevate the status of biking, we have to accomplish a cultural shift," says Andrea White, executive director of Bikestation, the non-profit group that helps cities set up the sites. "Facilities that are aesthetically pleasing with conveniences make people feel that they're part of something cool...