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Food: Much like The Rock Café, Chauhaus offers a typical selection of grill items and sandwiches along with soups and full salad bar. Drinks include juices, Starbucks Coffee, and fancier espresso-based concoctions. The Greenhouse may be the gold standard in selection amongst BoardPlus-accepting restaurants, but Chauhaus still offers a pretty broad subset of the Greenhouse’s menu...
Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67 said the House cut “some of the slightly fancier ingredients” in Masters’ Open Houses, but also had to eliminate the federal work-study jobs of students who worked in the library and superintendent’s office...
...procedures. But surgeon and author Atul Gawande says the very vastness of our knowledge gets in the way: doctors make errors because they simply can't remember it all. The solution, he outlines in his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, isn't fancier technology or more training. It's as simple as an old-fashioned checklist, like those used by pilots, restaurateurs and construction engineers. When his research team introduced one in eight hospitals in 2008, major surgery complications dropped 36% and deaths plunged 47%. Gawande talked to TIME about why checklists work, what...
...Music-making Vest,” a vest that has buttons which can be pressed to make music, but only when the user holds hands with another vest-wearer. She even varies the “subjective standard operating procedure” of her wardrobe. “For fancier occasions,” she says, “I’ll wear a bigger...
...fanatic. Fan as in fancier. Fan as in fantasy lover. Forrest J Ackerman, who died Thursday at 92 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, was all these things and many more: literary agent for such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt, Curt Siodmak and L. Ron Hubbard; actor and talisman in more than 50 films (The Howling, Beverly Hills Cop III, Amazon Women on the Moon); editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and creator of the Vampirella comic book franchise. But each of these trades was an exponent of his educated ardor...