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...Harvard was just one cornucopia of opportunity and excitement,” he says. “And being involved in national politics? It was just not germane to the options that were just in front of us all the time...
...even bigger flea market. And every day but Monday, there's a big, bustling, cornucopia-style covered market that puts sterile grocery chain stores to shame. Toulouse has been a market town since its early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central...
Genes, of course, do not make us fat. They merely set up a susceptibility to gaining weight under certain conditions--and without question, those conditions are now ubiquitous. In essence, says Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, sedentary lifestyles and a cornucopia of food have transformed people into the equivalent of corn-fed cattle confined in pens. "We have created the great American feedlot," he says...
...criminal investigation, he adds, would be subject to stringent criteria. "We can completely reassure the public. It's nonsense to say that every communication is now going to be targeted, that civil liberties are going to be highly compromised." Still, concern over potential abuse is high, given the cornucopia of "specific circumstances" under which data could be sought, as cited by Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman: national security, crime detection or prevention, disorder prevention, the nation's economic well-being, public safety, protection of public health, assessment or collection of a tax, duty or levy, prevention - in an emergency...
...Over Thanksgiving, Gossip Guy reflected on what he has to be thankful for: a cornucopia of Indian-assisted rumors, a smorgasbord of lies, and bountiful, Puritan innuendo...