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...Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily jagged edge. At no point does little Vanya eat a meal or walk down a street that would meet even the most minimal nutritional or aesthetic standards of even the poorest American child...
...Cech wanted the world’s leading bioscentists to exchange ideas in a central location. After he was named president of HHMI, Cech and two other institute administrators met over a meal at a restaurant in Boulder, where the University of Colorado—the school at which Cech has spent almost all of his professional life—is located. According to a press release from the institute, Cech and the administrators—scribbling on the back of a napkin—sketched a preliminary blueprint for a massive bioscience complex...
...announces. "We've become such an immediate society. When you send a thank-you note, it could take three, four, five days to get there. People start thinking, Isn't this person going to acknowledge it?" I lean forward as Pachter talks about what to eat at a business meal in a restaurant. "Order what's easy to eat," she advises. Forget about such splatter-prone fare as spaghetti, lobster or ribs unless you're in a specialty restaurant and your dining partners will be ordering the same. Other rules, according to the experts: Wait until everyone has been served...
...delivery services in New York City, Atlanta and Los Angeles, I decided to eat nothing but raw food for a week. This didn't quite work out, since most of the food I'm offered is cooked and I'm not very good at turning down a free meal. But I made it for almost three days, during which I ate some surprisingly awesome stuff and felt pretty good, if often hungry. Plus, I saved a lot of time because I could shop in only one supermarket aisle. And to put it delicately, I did not waste many minutes...
...height reduced about 13 in., to 4 ft. 5 in. "Ashley's smaller and lighter size," her parents write on the blog defending their decision, "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love: meal time, car trips, touch, snuggles, etc." They stress that the goal was "to improve our daughter's quality of life and not to convenience her caregivers...