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...striking that the Reform Party, founded by Perot to keep his crusade alive, has virtually no appeal to the Tea Party crowd. There is a lesson in that. Grass-roots uprisings come and go, and protest candidates rise and fall. In the flush of righteous battle, people focus on the beliefs they share and tolerate points of difference. Eventually, though, the battle ends, the smoke clears, and even when the movement has some success, its troops tend to go their separate ways. After Perot retired from politics, his movement fell to pieces; Patrick Buchanan carried the Reform Party's banner...
...have high ambitions for the foundation, which has already attracted interest from outside sponsors. "Our dream is that each year, we'll turn out one or two chefs who will be extremely important for the future of cuisine." (El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià's Harvard science lesson...
...really important life lesson to meet people from different backgrounds,” said West A. Resendes ’12, the director of CODA. “The deaf community is relatively unknown. But the unique experiences of deaf people should be shared with everyone...
Sports-shoe manufacturers would do well to take a lesson from the old rickshaw runners (called jiin-riki) in Japan. They wore tabis, or mittens for the feet, with treaded rubber soles, which provided protection against stones, glass and nails in the road, as well as traction on ice or in mud. The snug fabric portion provided support and prevented chafing. Most modern sport shoes are too heavy and become uncomfortably hot, causing the feet to swell...
...Lesson No. 1: tell people what you want them to do in a way that will make intuitive sense to them. The U.S. government's Food Guide Pyramid says adults should eat 5 to 7 tsp. of oil a day. Know how many teaspoonfuls of oil you ate yesterday or why you should care...