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...Barons profiles other do-gooders, including Andy Frank, who created the plug-in hybrid car, but those stories are less compelling than Humes' description of Tompkins. The book starts to feel repetitive as we're introduced to one extraordinary green after another. But Humes' ultimate point is well taken: at the very moment when the government began abdicating its responsibilities to the environment, the eco-barons stepped in. "We'd be years behind where we are now without these individuals," says Humes. (Read about Chevy's electric...
...Harvard Collegium-Musicum performs 20th century classical choral scores "Frank Martin's Mass" and "Songs of Love and War" on Friday night (8 p.m.; Sanders Theatre; Students $10, through the Harvard Box Office or online...
...reversal of the mindless use of high-fructose corn syrup that has been the case in this country since 1970. This movement also promises to be at least a little bit greener. The energy necessary to turn corn into corn syrup leaves a huge carbon footprint. According to Chloe Frank ’09, author of “A Controversial Sweetener: The Hoopla over High Fructose Corn Syrup in America,” HFCS is made by milling corn into cornstarch. The cornstarch is then broken down into glucose, and the chains of glucose molecules—thanks...
...their little miscreants. And after the “Amen,” smatterings of conversation kept the people up, or slowed their sitting to a jolly drifting. It looked to me like there was a whole lot of satisfaction going on between these Northerners and, to be frank, I thought it was disgusting.Well, the insincerity got me so caught up that I missed my chance to go back in. Now some deacon or other went to the pulpit to blab about some calendar of evangelism and I let the door close with a squeak from it and a sigh...
...Thanks? What had begun as a frank conversation about sex between two adults had quickly degenerated into something presumptuous and vaguely sexist. His brutally honest language concerning sex—discharge, lubricants: words that demystify and de-stigmatize the realities of intercourse—was betrayed by this metaphorical notion of protection. His instructions to “wrap it up” because my canine lover could be barking up another tree may have been nothing more than a misguided attempt to speak in 20-something vernacular, but it reveals a more disturbing mode of approaching heterosexuality...