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...like it in My Boyfriend's Back: 50 True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love (Plume). But the biggest incentive may be that hooking up with a friend from the past holds the promise of future ease. "There is an expectation of immediate comfort with someone supposedly familiar, as well as an expectation of similar values based on a common history--and therefore perhaps of not having to work so hard to build a bond," says marriage counselor William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota who has worked with couples for three...
...chefs winnow hundreds of ideas for new menu items--the Cheesecake Factory's version of American Idol--and Matz's puttanesca has reached the finals. After a few years of rounds that added Asian, Caribbean and Latin American flavors to the menu, this round of revisions will reimagine familiar classics like spinach salad, corned-beef hash and spaghetti with red sauce; the puttanesca is a twist on marinara. The winners will debut on Cheesecake Factory menus later this month...
...Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating. To write the 600-page tome, she spent a year examining the world of groceries. "It's not exactly the great Western novel," she concedes, but it has its own fascination, breaking the code of an utterly familiar yet beguiling institution. TIME quizzed Nestle in the aisles at Safeway. For a more panoramic overview, turn the page. [This article contains a complex diagram. For text, please see hardcopy of magazine...
...bedside table was a familiar yellow and red tube and it was almost empty. Nitropaste is a transcutaneous cardiac nitrate - a form of the more familiar 'nitroglycerin' that heart patients put under the tongue to relieve anginal chest pains. They both work by opening up certain blood vessels. Because it is well absorbed through the skin, it's given by squeezing a little out - like a half-inch long squeeze of toothpaste - onto a piece of paper or plastic and sticking it onto the patient's skin. Patients usually can do this for themselves - that's why it was left...
...resulting tumult in the University have slowed the momentum of Harvard’s fundraising machine, with some alums and administrators worrying that the instability at the top of the University has led to the delay or even the withdrawal of significant gifts that had been under discussion.Those familiar with fundraising have indicated various reasons for donors’ hesitation to give what the University calls “transformational” gifts—an endowment of large magnitude, such as a building or other ambitious project—under the current interim administration.Several suggested that the reluctance...