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China has long prided itself on having come up with many of the world's most important inventions. Now the country that gave us gunpowder, paper money and the noodle can claim responsibility for another of human civilization's highest achievements: we have the Chinese, or at least their distant ancestors, to thank for cocktails. According to a report released last week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., residents of the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province were raising toasts with fruit wines and rice spirits in 7000 B.C.?usurping Iran's first...
...Taqueria, says that since Thanksgiving, prices have been “crazy.” Twelve boxes of tomatoes are used daily just to make the salsa. He’s cut salsa servings by one third to make up for a five-fold price hike—the highest price in 20 years, he claims. It’s better than charging extra or taking tomatoes off the menu as others have...
Secretary to the Committee Elizabeth A. Gray said the total is probably the highest number CCSR has voted on, though she said that in past years as many as 200 proxy proposals have been filed, with some later withdrawn...
...what appeared to be an unprecedented arrangement, the Corporation, Harvard’s highest governing body, voted to allow an additional 4-percent increase in endowment payout for certain programs identified as priorities by top administrators. Summers said they were likely to include physical renovations, financial aid and new academic programs and research—areas he has long highlighted as top priorities—but he would not say how extensive the additional funding would...
Besides the new sign colors (and the bad weather), this miserable December day was hard to distinguish from the same day any other year. Campaigns for the two highest offices of the council have always stuck to posters to get their messages out. Beyond poster drops, door-to-door visits from candidates, websites of varying degrees of slickness and a lot of screaming outside of the Science Center, these campaigns have long seemed reluctant to adopt more creative measures—use of a yellow bird outfit in the 2003 campaign of Aaron S. Byrd ’05 aside...