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Kelly A. Evans '10, the Food Literacy Project representative in Adams House, is hosting a potato chip buffet tonight featuring six different types of Cape Cod potato chips and a bunch of different kinds of dips, everything ranging from the typical French onion to one with clams. She said that she got the idea from a blockmate "who really likes chips," and that this features chips produced locally in Hyannis, Mass...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa | Title: Potato Chips Galore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...simple breakfast of cinnamon rolls or focaccia bread (and don't forget, at some point during your stay, to try the best pumpkin burger on an island full of imitators). You could then cross the bridge over to Don Khon to explore the remnants of an old French railway, walk one mile (1.5 km) to Somphamit Falls to see rapids crash through the jagged gorge, then hire a longtail boat to take you to see the endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Time You're in ... Laos | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France's social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public. But times have changed. Twenty years after Le Pen's National Front Party (FN) became a political force in France, its view that immigration is threatening the French national identity is starting to gain wider acceptance. Now, the government is putting the issue front and center for the first time by encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its Identity | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...must reaffirm the values of national identity and pride in being French," Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration and National Identity, said as he announced the three-month series of discussions on Nov. 2. "This debate doesn't scare me. I even find it passionate." Besson says it's important for an increasingly diverse France to define its essential unifying values and reclaim a national pride and patriotism that the National Front co-opted long ago for its own xenophobic purposes. (See pictures of Bastille Day celebrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its Identity | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...were much higher [in these babies]. The stress response to the pain of the surgery proved dangerous," Wilder explains. It is also important to remember how primitive surgical painkilling mechanisms were before the invention of ether, Wilder adds. According to the medical historian Paul Strathern, for example, the greatest French surgeon of the early 19th century, Guillaume Dupuytren, once reported that the best method he had discovered for anesthetizing his female patients was to make a "brutal remark" and hope they fell into a faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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