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...major angels and demons of the universe, and two symmetrical forearm tattoos that, when pressed together, create howling wind and various other supernatural phenomena. (This, too, is never fully explained in either the movie or most Sunday school curricula, but we assume it’s one of the finer points of the Catholic catechism...
...face in the crowd. It’s that much harder to stand out, especially at Harvard, when your name is as common as ours. But ultimately, what we gain from our homogeneity outweighs the downside. The unremarkable nature of our name forces people to distinguish us by our finer details. Having three Sara(h)s in my creative writing class last semester trained the professor to know us by our work, not just by our name. We’re described as musicians, athletes, and poets. Two syllables are not enough to encapsulate us, and we?...
Equipment comes in many variations. You can use a pan or a popcorn popper (free, if you already own one) or get a specialty roaster ($100 to $200). The higher-tech options allow for finer control and produce less smoke. But the lower-tech choices create a sort of DIY pride among enthusiasts and can be tweaked for more control. Home-roasting guru Jim Schulman, who conducts his own coffee-tasting sessions in Chicago, uses a '70s-era popcorn popper that he has modified extensively with a blueprint he got online from some fellow roasters who happened to be engineers...
Inside the Beltway, Rumsfeld's spying efforts--the Pentagon last week publicly acknowledged that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is sending out special clandestine teams--seem to critics like a power grab. But the Defense Department says its agents can deliver intelligence on military targets that's finer-grained than what the CIA provides--for example, architectural details of a building that commandos must storm...
...year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion of Japanese culture through its garish, brightly lit back door"?but his real intention is to connect with Charley, who is on the brink of disappearing into the teenage...