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...also impulsively purchased some duck foie gras and a carton of figs that were starved for attention in this meat emporium. Then it was off to Formaggio Kitchen on Huron Avenue, about a 15 minute walk from the Yard near the Quad, where I picked up a block of Greek halloumi cheese. My third stop was Cardullo’s in Harvard Square. I had to gather a few items to pull together the dormitory feast I envisioned. As brash and tacky as Savenor’s is sophisticated and unassuming, Cardullo’s sells everything from the grossly...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tired of HUDS? Buy Some Ostrich | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Replacement for Hip Replacements | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that it was nearly impossible to sedate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Replacement for Hip Replacements | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...Syria's historical position at the crossroads of empires explains the multicultural feel of the displays. The museum's classical collection could be housed in any European city, with its Greek gods and Roman mosaics. But turn a corner and you stroll past a row of medieval, Central Asian figurines, displayed in one of many Islamic galleries. There are also linens rescued from Palmyra, with their dyes still visible despite being over 1,800 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damascene Confusion | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

WELL, MOST OF THEM Despite repeated requests by the Greek government, the British Museum hasn't returned the Parthenon's marble frieze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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