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Regardless of whether financial aid officials make a conscious choice to be biased in the face of such incentives, they cannot avoid distorting their preferences on a subconscious level. Humans have a fundamental psychological need to reciprocate; a study shows that when doctors received free gourmet lunches from pharmaceutical companies, a significant increase in sales from prescriptions was measured. Even when cheaper generic alternatives were available, doctors prescribed more expensive proprietary drugs after accepting such gifts. Why should financial aid officers be any more immune than doctors to basic human proclivities...
Frances R. Cardullo, the owner of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe on Brattle Street, said the measure would benefit large corporations, while hurting small businesses like hers...
...residents started moving in during the spring and summer. The common house in each cohousing project is tailored to the resident group's interests and needs. For instance, the one at Silver Sage Village, a 16-unit development that broke ground in Boulder, Colo., in August, will have a gourmet kitchen, dining room, library, crafts and multimedia rooms, plus two bedrooms for caregivers or visiting family members...
...GOURMET'S DIARY OF A FOODIE PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS Like a Cheesecake Factory menu, this series strives to offer a bit of everything: it's a cooking show, a travelogue, a history and anthropology show. Each episode hopscotches to a new country, visiting restaurants and homes, chatting up average people and experts on food's role in the culture. A segment on international ingredients with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is a little elementary-- to viewers raised on the Food Network, oyster sauce is no longer exotic--but the show is a fast, info-packed study in how the world...
...they got lost on their way to a nail salon, hang from the ceiling over plates of hot food. Savory crepes, hot entrées, and breakfast anytime distinguish Z Square from any other aesthetically chic but otherwise average eatery. The sandwich menu consists of the favorites with a gourmet flare—the curried chutney chicken salad on sourdough is strikingly tasty. In the same vein, the curried cauliflower soup was fantastically thick and had just the right amount of kick. The salads, though fresh, are mediocre, especially when the inexperienced and overwhelmed cooks forget the dressing. The green...