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Chef for Residential Dining Michael Kann, who assists chefs in all undergraduate halls, says that he also worked with chefs to re-arrange menus to eliminate excess handwork--like that involved in sandwich-making--for a limited crew...
What to do is obvious. First, find a scale, assess your excess winter baggage and act now. "It's a lot easier to lose a pound or so today than 20 lbs. later on," says Yanovski. In general, just as you built up the weight slowly, you should take it off slowly, aiming to lose no more than a pound or so a week...
Removal of vegetative cover also worsens the flooding that occurs during periods of torrential rain. Riverine forests serve as sponges that soak up excess water, preventing it from rushing all at once into rivers and tributaries. In similar fashion, estuarine wetlands and mangrove forests help shield human settlements from the storm surges that accompany tropical cyclones and hurricanes. Biologists estimate that 50% of the world's mangrove forests have already been replaced by everything from shantytowns to cement plants and shrimp farms. Stir in the expectation that rising temperatures will trigger a rise in sea level, and you have...
...Manliness motivates not only Braveheart, but the terrorists of Northern Ireland. And Wolfe, without any concern for the excess for his extreme stance, ends up spewing a kind of cheap Nietzsche, worshipping his own ubermensch, the stoic philosopher. One such character, a la Charlie Croker, the hero of A Man in Full, may be colorful, but a society of such rambunctious souls is anarchy...
...This is all music to Wall Street's ears. Both Verizon (the joint Vodafone/Bell Atlantic venture) and AT&T Wireless have IPOs planned for the coming months that are expected to raise in excess of $10 billion apiece. Executives from Bell South and SBC say their venture could have a similarly huge Wall Street debut. What's more, industry experts expect the number of U.S. cell phone users (currently around 80 million) to double within five years. The cell phone market is expected to grow substantially this summer, when the FCC plans to auction off several billion dollars' worth...