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...years that has enabled him to explore a subject not traditionally taught at Harvard.WRITING THE RECIPEEisele says his love for beer dates back to his very first taste.“My first beer was a Budweiser from my grandpa’s fridge when I was cutting the grass,” he says. “I think I was 13. It made me feel really cool. It made me feel more like my dad.”Eisele grew up in a German family in the hometown of the Anheuser-Busch companies in St. Louis, MO.He says...
...spring: that blissful season when a young girl’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of summer jobs. Outside, birds are singing, crocuses are springing, that guy with the machine is trying to induce green grass. Inside, you are crouched over your laptop trying to find lucrative internships whose application deadlines weren’t in November. You are not succeeding. Everyone you talk to either has had a job lined up for months or is running around like a decapitated chicken trying to find one. But it can’t be just any job. If you want...
...minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods real or imagined, individual and collective apparitions of an idyllic pastoral existence...
...suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well,” she thought, “if I am not too tired out after disemboweling...
Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...