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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...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BoardPlus Burn: Chauhaus | 5/1/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Housing Budget Cuts Continue | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sabrina Chou ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi's No. 1 Fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, Dies at 92 | 12/6/2008 | See Source »

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