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...same time, 20% of all adults still smoke; nearly 20% of drivers and more than 30% of backseat passengers don't use seat belts; two-thirds of us are overweight or obese. We dash across the street against the light and build our homes in hurricane-prone areas--and when they're demolished by a storm, we rebuild in the same spot. Sensible calculation of real-world risks is a multidimensional math problem that sometimes seems entirely beyond us. And while it may be true that it's something we'll never do exceptionally well, it's almost certainly something...
...asked if he would be back, he responded after a long stare at his empty plate: “I don’t like American food.” He’s from Chile. Salaverria later engaged in a conversation with the Chilean visitor, who added a dash of foreign flavor to the International House. Salaverria explained that the franchise is very popular in America. More than 1,200 branches have opened across this country and Canada since 1958. As four Harvard juniors walked into the restaurant, two IHOP employees greeted them with jokes as corny...
...digital age, photography has fallen victim to the superfluous. A camera is no longer a means to record our lives—increasingly, it is our way of living it. No longer do we click a picture to remember strolling lazily on a bridge on a midsummer day; we dash to the bridge precisely to remember posing...
Like a bracing dash of water to the face, it's useful to have a dose of realism added to America's innate idealistic instincts every now and then. It's also useful to be reminded that the easy-to-swallow bromide about how our ideals are the same as our interests is, alas, not always true in a messy world...
...along the left side and sent the puck skittering across the goalmouth, where it ricocheted off of a Big Green skate and across the goal line. The score temporarily brought the Crimson within one at 3-2, but Dartmouth would respond with two goals under a minute apart to dash any hopes of a comeback. Despite the Big Green’s scoring spree, Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe returned to the ice for the third period. “I didn’t feel that pulling [Tobe] at any time was the right thing...