Word: flatness
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...seems like Barack Obama just can’t please the American public anymore. A little over a week ago, criticism rained down on the president when his personal bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago fell flat. Then, last Friday, Obama generated almost as much anger for becoming the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Peace. It’s enough to make a person stop and wonder—is it better to be a winner or a loser, or are both equally objectionable...
...hopping best seller, is a Victorian ghost story set in the present that's more in tune with her creepy "visual novels" The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters. Starring a pair of waifish twins who inherit their mysterious (and dead, but maybe not-so-dead) aunt's London flat, the book is set in and around the city's famous Highgate Cemetery. Niffenegger talked to TIME about her favorite gardens of the dead, creepy twins and the subject of her next book...
...there a noticeable difference between European cemeteries and American cemeteries? Well, a lot of communities in America have passed laws saying that cemeteries have to be flat so that you can run a lawnmower over it. To me, that kind of sums up the modern American attitude. Some of the European cemeteries, on the other hand, are so old that the graves no longer have family connected with them to take care of them, they're running out of space, and there are issues about who's going to pay for the upkeep. So the gorgeous European cemeteries have their...
...some coaxing (and several free samples) before students are sold on the techniques presented in the book—such as using a microwave to make bread. Boozy Beer Bread, as the name implies, makes good use of another college survival item by incorporating one full can of stale, flat beer into batter, creating a surprisingly delicious treat with a texture similar to that of traditionally baked bread—but with PETA’s interpretation, one can have fresh bread in a matter of minutes, rather than hours...
...sounds simple. But that view not only contradicts Justice's own statement supporting a sentence reduction - Birkenfeld faced a possible five-year sentence for his work on behalf of Olenicoff - it's also flat-out wrong, says Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, who has been involved with hundreds of whistle-blower cases. After all, he notes, it would be a serious disincentive if whistle-blowers could be tripped up by inadvertently leaving out some information the government might come across later...