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Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) moved the salad bar inside the serving area, opened the kitchen to make the chefs and food viewable, created detached island-like serving counters and instituted a policy of preparing smaller sizes to keep the food fresher...
...attribute tom valenta once admired in his wife was the methodical way she went about things. "Say we were setting up a piece of kitchen equipment," he says. "She'd have read the instructions and made it work while I was still scratching my head trying to figure out step one." In her 30s, with the couple's three children all at school, Marie Valenta went to university to study primary school teaching, finishing each year in the top 1% of her class. More recently, she learned bookkeeping to make herself useful in the family's public relations business...
...multiple showering areas, adding hand showers and different types of showerheads." Waterworks, Dornbracht, Kohler and even plain old American Standard are responding by offering higher-and-higher-end fixtures. All in all, spending on bathroom remodeling went up 33% (to $20 billion) from 2001 to 2003, says the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Sure, some of it is for waterproof TVs and music systems, but more than gadgets, says Sallick, the biggest luxury in bathrooms is an expression of personal style. Nothing is as restful as the knowledge that the room in which you are all alone is all your...
...Paris sidewalks, takes swipes at such institutions as government ("a French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun - people think he has no firepower"), cheek-kissing ("if ever there's a serious epidemic of facial herpes, they'll have to get condoms for their heads"), kitchen utensils ("no wonder the French make such good engineers - you need a degree in industrial design just to cook dinner") and even Marianne, the French Uncle Sam: "This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked...
...bang into people and knock their molars loose. My daughter is no shrinking violet. The other day I saw the little darling try to throttle a 6-year-old boy. She threw him down and was about to kick him in the pancreas. I called her name from the kitchen window, and she smiled a cherubic smile and poked him with her toe, just so he'd know what was on her mind. The old man shudders to see this...