Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sometimes life just gets to be too much. Too many cold French fries on your plate, no double chocolate cookies for dessert, no way to identify the ingredients of the goulash swimming through the egg noodles. Sometimes the cravings take over and there is no way to fight the nausea of the dining hall and there is no convenient kitchen cabinet to turn to. Sometimes you just want choice. "Discover the Difference." Welcome to Star Market, the biggest supermarket around...
...first time, Harvard University Dining Services is offering cooking classes to seniors this year. Four sessions in February, March and April will allow seniors to learn the basics, from separating an egg to cooking full meals...
...your story "Good Eggs, Bad Eggs," on prenatal genetic testing: if his parents had used this procedure, wouldn't physicist Stephen Hawking [who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease] have been considered a bad egg? RON THIMOT Haverhill, Mass...
Since it is probably safe to assume that people intent on securing high-priced Ivy League eggs are carrying some pushy-parents genes themselves, their joining forces with a donor who got into an Ivy League college by dint of her family's willingness to fork over 10 grand to an SAT prep course could result in a child with somewhere between a dose and a half and 2 1/2 doses of pushy-parents genes. Apparently the egg seekers aren't troubled by the prospect of having their grandchildren raised by this sort of person...
...element many of them had going for them in the admissions process was that they were identified as "legacies"--the offspring of alumni. In Ivy League colleges, alumni children are even now admitted at twice the rate of other applicants. For that reason, egg seekers may not actually need genuine smart-kid genes for their children: after all, an applicant whose mother and father and egg donor were all alumni could be considered a triple legacy...