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...star and businessman whose contempt for formality is acute, enthuses about Prince Charles: "He does a lot, he's hugely underappreciated. He takes the side of the people over what the newspapers and the biens pensants want. I have a lot of time for him. He kicks up a fuss." There's more: Charles' preoccupations are often prescient. Organic farming was marginal to the point of ridicule when he first started converting his Gloucestershire farm 20 years ago; David Wilson, the manager, said "even within his own organization, people felt it was dangerous, wacky, could be shot down...
...family chooses cremation and has the ashes scattered at sea. Then we hold a memorial service in the backyard of the family home, where we have had so many good times. Family and friends gather for a potluck meal, and we bring out the photo albums and reminisce. No fuss, no stress and very little expense. Down with funeral homes! JOYCE ELLIOTT Los Angeles...
...fuss reminds me of one of dose words," said Kingfish. "Mumbo jumbo...
...fuss, Tamiflu is far from a guarantee against disaster. "It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they're ill," says Osterholm, pointing out that it works relatively well in treating current flu infections, but adding that it's unclear how effective the drug would be against the H5N1 virus and at what dosage it might work best. And there's a separate, troubling development: the emergence of a case in Vietnam that appears resistant to the drug. Still, Osterholm believes that stockpiles of Tamiflu, being a valuable treatment tool and, unlike a vaccine...
...only time restraint. We started making merry not when we were done watching the previous week’s lectures on tape, but when there were no more dishes to wash.Once during the weekend, my cell phone rang. So I turned it off.Last spring, there was much fuss made about a survey by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) that ranked Harvard fifth-from-last among 31 elite schools in terms of student satisfaction. Graduating seniors gave fair Harvard poor reviews for, among other things, the quality of students’ social life. University Hall’s response?...