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...Because it overcomes the weaknesses of its genre by playing them as strengths. It isn’t a masterpiece—it’s fluff and Myers knows this. It’s why her pictures are successful...
While Marshmallow Fluff has been used for a multitude of purposes, this week likely marks the first time it will be featured in a romance scene between a dentist and a blossoming liberal feminist. The decision of director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 to use Fluff epitomizes the lighthearted mood of her upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw’s play “You Never Can Tell.” The play, which runs from Nov. 10-18 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre—and is often called the pleasantest of Shaw?...
Dumping has also been valuable for Tennessee's Bouldin Corp. In 2003 the firm began taking Warren County garbage and converting it to what Bouldin calls "fluff." That's household trash ground up, with the metals removed, and heated so it's inert. Fluff is used as a peat substitute. Bouldin's new landfill project is expected to swing to profitability after it launches its first durable products next year: landscape timber and building blocks made from trash. "A few years down the line, we'll wonder why we ever put this stuff in the ground," says marketing manager Terry...
...coat"--but no one doubts the value of the "aww" factor. "When you've been bitten by one, you don't think they're so cute," says Michelle Staedler, the Monterey Aquarium's sea otter research coordinator, "but then you look, and they're a big ball of fluff." [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] Hunted Nearly To Extinction Russia's Peter the Great declared a monopoly on sablein 1697 and sent hunters to find sea routes to America.When Vitus Bering's expedition was shipwrecked in 1741, his crew killed sea otters instead...
...controlling people and generally getting your way–with useless info like the causes and warning signs of clinical depression. Psych 15, “Social Psychology,” is like that cute fat girl who went on a diet: all the essentials without the fluff. Your fearless leader will be the superb Daniel Wegner, who re-takes the reigns after a year on leave doing research. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe at mildly inappropriate anecdotes. Some of the highlights: Interpersonal Attraction–Hopefully your section will contain a resident feminist/male chauvinist...