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...folks who are freaked out by genetically modified foods, who won't drink cow's milk laced with growth hormones or touch diet colas sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought $700 million of drinks spiked with echinacea...
...lost? Where is the last class, the best friend, the last snack stolen from the dining hall? Nothing remains; we forgot to take pictures and now we find memories must suffice, fade as they may. The picture lies, anyway; must hides behind the edges, as deadlines loomed and worries, foolish now, haunt its shadows. At best, pictures can serve as talismans, as the hidden corners are painted in the warm light of memory...
...would therefore be foolish not to credit the protest with its eventual result—the appointment of a new committee to consider Harvard’s labor policies. For months —indeed, until the final days of the sit-in—Harvard had given the impression that the issue was closed. The Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies had released a report in May of 2000 that recommended against a wage floor for Harvard’s employees, suggesting instead an expansion of health insurance, training opportunities and other job-related benefits. The committee?...
...with an invisible hand, which sounds like something I was pretty sure I was going to get away with when I went to see a movie with Jackie Tudor in eighth grade but actually explains capitalism. My failure with Jackie is best explained by the foolish choice of Beverly Hills Cop II instead of Dirty Dancing...
...with an invisible hand, which sounds like something I was pretty sure I was going to get away with when I went to see a movie with Jackie Tudor in eighth grade but actually explains capitalism. My failure with Jackie is best explained by the foolish choice of Beverly Hills Cop II instead of Dirty Dancing...