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Having fortified himself against the cold with a few big gulps from his booze bottle Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) emerges into the winter wonderland of Buffalo, N.Y., to shovel the snow from his walk. His motivational method is simple: he tosses the bottle into a drift a few feet ahead of him, clears the white stuff from the path until he reaches his vodka, takes another bracing slug of the stuff, tosses the bottle ahead of him again and repeats his ritual. Eventually he will be fully bombed and his walk will be fully cleared. Unless, of course, hypothermia gets...
...last decade, bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass have become an acceptable method for treating the 15 million people in the U.S. who suffer from morbid obesity. "Obesity can be life threatening," says Dr. Philip Schauer, president of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS). "And surgery is the next best step." Despite this, only 1% of patients who are eligible for surgery (those with a BMI over 40 or a BMI of 35 or more in conjunction with an obesity-related disease) actually get it. Sometimes, people just don't want to undergo a surgical procedure, but more often than...
...nickname "the Big Cheese," it was chemist and food researcher Edwin Traisman. In the '50s, Traisman led the team at Kraft Foods that developed sliced cheese and the distinctly American spreadable snack Cheez Whiz. After leaving his post as Kraft's cheese-division director, he invented the freezing method for McDonald's French fries...
...calendar campaign illustrates Petersen’s bifurcated method of lobbying the administration: while raising the rhetorical ante in public, he appears to have been successful in cajoling University leaders in private...
...reason?” One area was originally called “Empirical Reasoning.” Seeking to explain that proposed requirement, some argued, unconvincingly, that it was needed because students couldn’t learn scientific method, as well as science, in their two required science courses. The mathematicians argued that Harvard could not mount a curriculum excluding mathematics, so the “empirical” area was broadened to include “mathematical reasoning.” All of which leaves reason nowhere in particular...