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This usually means a doughnut run to Store 24, or a pizza delivery, or, of course, the Kong. Yet these options grow tiresome. Is there any reason that first-years should not have as much access to a variety of meals as their elders...

Author: By Roy Astrachnan, | Title: In Search of the Late Night Snack | 5/25/1994 | See Source »

...passengers are getting rowdy: "When are we stopping for doughnuts?" "I'll buy you lunch! I'll buy you a ham-and-cheese sandwich." The officers ignore the gibes. "We get one doughnut comment every day," says a good-natured Krajeski. "And we get offered bribes. One kid offered me a dollar to let him go, but he was special-ed." Says DiAngelo: "We try not to be too hard-ass. We try to keep the relationship open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Gotham's New Outrage: Truants! | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to restrict pollack fishing in an area known as the "doughnut hole," in the international waters of the Bering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Few Fish in the Sea | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...last Thursday, the 500 scientists and engineers packed into the control room and an adjacent auditorium at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory kept their eyes riveted on a bank of computer monitors. They waited anxiously as technicians injected less than 1 oz. of tritium gas into the doughnut-shaped hollow at the heart of a 50-ft.- tall reactor in the next room. Then they waited some more as the tritium mixed with deuterium gas already inside and the combination was heated with powerful radio beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blinded By the Light | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...dining hall personnel must wonder, are we so reluctant to gobble up our banana peels, orange rinds, and apple cores? Odds are that these items are included in our daily food waste tallies. It's difficult to picture someone separating the grapefruit peel from the half-eaten doughnut...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Socially Inefficient | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

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