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There's something dirty in the laundry rooms of Harvard College, and it's not sweat-stained DHA's or sullied socks. There's a profit being made off our grimy garments, and every time a student swipes a Crimson Cash card or drops a quarter in a dryer his loss becomes someone else's gain. From Eliot House to Adams House, from Hollis to Holworthy, our precious dollars are being washed away with the Tide. Ironically, our money is being laundered in a room full of Maytags...
Kabinett: the entry-level QmP. Delicate and often made in a dryer style...
Trockenbeerenauslese: a confusing name. This is not a dry Beerenauslese but a "super" Beerenauslese made from grapes that are even "dryer" or more shriveled by Botrytis, thus yielding even more concentrated juice for these legendary wines...
...accident is plausible: it involves a hair dryer, a bathtub and an electric shock. The results are improbable: the victim, Gibson's Nick Marshall, an adman confronting a career crisis, is given a magical ability to listen in on womens' thoughts. As comic premises go these days, it is acceptable. One settles back to enjoy the advantages, personal and professional, that accrue to Nick as a result of his unexpected gift...
...country does indeed waste energy. But it's not the family that uses their stove to cook food, their furnace to heat the house, and their washer and dryer to clean clothes that should suffer because of that. Sometimes we can't simply close our eyes and hope that Adam Smith's magical, invisible hand will come and sweep away our problems. We're going to have to change our attitudes towards energy and the environment in general, but unfettered capitalism is not the way to achieve that change. The solution to the energy crisis lies in our ability...