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...Supermarkets, in fact, are still a rarity in India. About 97% of the estimated $200 billion Indians spend shopping every year goes to 12 million mom-and-pop stores around the country. Some of these shops cram a surprising array of foods into their limited shelf space, and a small but growing number have imported food - taco shells, olives, cheeses. But very few of them have aisles down which you can push a shopping cart, and almost none of them are air conditioned or use electronic checkouts...
...really stressful, especially during midterms. I actually broke down at rehearsal. I had to cram studying, but I was not able to study as much as I had wanted,” Moore says. “We were working six straight hours with one five-minute break. I think I was in the studio over 23 hours in a matter of three days...
While Harvard undergrads are racing from class to extracurricular to evening section, trying to cram in a half-hour of treadmill time before hunkering down in Lamont for a late-night cram session, I’m lounging on Sydney’s glorious Bondi Beach. Over the last few months, the most multitasking I’ve done has been trying to apply sunscreen while thumbing through the pages of a coursepack saturated in ocean spray...
...Idle followed Cleese and Chapman to Cambridge, where he didn't cram for his exam a lot. He spent most of his time at the Footlights Club. "And one night I did a sketch John had written before, a thing called ?BBC BC' in which Bill Oddie read the news: ?Good evening, here beginneth the news. It has come to pass that...' And I did the weather forecast: ?Over the whole of Egypt, plague followed by floods, followed by frogs, and then death of all the firstborn - sorry about that Egypt.'" (Spamalot echoes this in the historian's opening narration...
...wide range of general topics.Instead, the Core is often seen as seven obligatory piles of specific, useless knowledge to choke down. Far from expanding their academic horizons, many students trudge through the Core by taking whatever fits their schedule, doing as little work as possible, and adhering to the cram-and-purge school of exam-taking. The Curricular Review promises big changes to all this—eventually.But until that day comes, use the Confi Guide as a primer on using (and abusing?) the Core, especially for incoming freshmen (and you juniors who still have six Cores left to kill...