Word: exceptional
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...Coming in to Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, I knew nothing about the guitar-popsters except that they wear promise rings and the middle one is cute. But I didn't begrudge what tween America feels for the group, because I do know this: Kids need to love things. And when they find something, they love it to pieces. The world is so fresh, their attention so intense, that any object they fix on - a toy, a TV show, the Harry Potter books, a new friend - becomes an object of the deepest, most transporting obsession, the purest form...
...because of its implications about the origin of human life. It is unintuitive, even for scientists, to accept that our species, which is unique in so many ways, has the same origins as a shark or a sequoia. But this does not account for why every single European country except Turkey is more willing than the U.S. to accept evolution as a fact. Presumably people in the EU care about what it means to be human...
...stomach membrane used to curdle milk—and posed the question to Harvard’s Food Literacy Project [http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/about.html]. In response, HUDS recently reviewed every kind of cheese used in the dining halls, leaving no slice or shred unturned. The verdict? All cheeses are innocent except for one—the sliced American...
...called all our cheese producers and learned that every cheese HUDS serves is FREE of animal-derived rennet (non-animal, microbial enzymes are used instead) EXCEPT for the sliced American cheese. According to Land O' Lakes, the maker of our sliced American cheese, that item is a ‘processed cheese’ which ‘could be made with microbial AND/OR animal-derived flavor-producing enzymes.’ We will look into the possibility of finding an American cheese with only non-animal, microbial enzymes, although by its very nature American cheese is of course...
...Except, that is, in China. Some economists and investors have turned mildly bullish on the Chinese economy. A February survey conducted by Merrill Lynch saw the number of fund managers who believed China's growth would be lower in the next 12 months shrink drastically. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, noted after client meetings that "attitudes toward China's efforts to counter the economic slump seem to have turned more positive." The happy mood also showed up in Chinese stocks. By mid-February, the Shanghai stock market had surged more than 30% since...