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...points. Those who showed up at Bright on Friday night to witness the dazzling skills of the Olympians were surely not disappointed. They saw Vaillancourt leaping over obstacles in a rush on net, Apps uncorking a laser-beam slapshot, Parsons juking a defender with the fluidity of ginger ale, and Chu squeezing a visionary pass through thick traffic. They also saw two complete teams, two of the best in the country, with rosters full of some medal owners, granted, but mostly comprised of promising youngsters and savvy veterans. Veterans like Johnston, who cleverly outmaneuvered Apps to draw an obstruction call...
...ferment a nonalcoholic drink by converting the sugar that normally becomes alcohol into nonalcoholic gluconic acid. And because the acid strengthened the taste of sugar, Leipold only needed a fraction of the sugar found in a normal soft drink. Then came the flavors - elderberry, lychee, orange-ginger and herb - plus a spritz of carbonation...
Nothing says classic holiday season romance like a trip to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, playing until Dec. 30 at Boston’s recently renovated Opera House. After sipping eggnog on the Green Line to Northeastern, sit back and relax as Mother Ginger, Marzipan, and the Sugar Plum Fairies hypnotize you into a psychedelic stupor of lust. Beware, though, as the ballet has a tendency to bring out the worst in the closeted pretentious: should your date say anything about the Boston Ballet’s failure to live up to his/her Lincoln Center expectations, run away...
...Ginger...
Known to reduce inflammation and ease nausea, ginger powder was also found to kill ovarian-cancer cells in the laboratory at a rate comparable to conventional chemotherapy drugs...