Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carried by its long fold-out handle, the iBook could be a sleek, flat fourth-grader's lunch-box. It is a laptop with a sense of humor--almost ridiculous in its rejection of more serious stereotypes of computer. Designed to live in someone's backpack, it can be handled with relative impunity. Colored like a pre-school toy, it can be considered with a modicum of flippancy and easy camaraderie...
Because of the nature of a college student's schedule, the first meal eaten is often lunch, the second dinner, and by midnight the student is feeling hunger pains again. Dining halls could prepare healthy snacks so students don't resort to pizza runs to silence the grumbles of their stomachs. Many dining halls are already open into the night for soda and cereal, something we appreciate, and many House committees have worked with dining services to provide late-night snacks...
...Over lunch, HPR staffer Nicole B. Usher '03 chatted with Isaacson about how to obtain a successful career in political journalism...
Viruses are moving into the human species because there are more of us all the time. From a virus' point of view, we look like a free lunch that's getting bigger. My grandfather was born in 1899, on the eve of a new century, when there were 1.5 billion people on earth. He died in 1995, and by then there were almost 6 billion people. Thus in one lifetime the population quadrupled, and it's heading for 9 or 10 billion. In nature, when populations soar--and become densely packed--viral diseases tend to break out; then the population...
...might be worthwhile. But old age does not always bring with it sagacity and peacefulness (see Strom Thurmond). To the contrary, the so-called golden years are just an opportunity for drugmakers, insurance companies and medical facilities to take turns mugging our elders, like so many bullies stealing lunch money...