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...think of ducks having personalities. You've got Donald Duck. You've got Daffy Duck. You've got the Aflac duck. We think they're spunky little animals and we like them. And the method to produce foie gras is vivid and sounds incredibly unpleasant. Imagine if somebody put a pipe down your throat and filled you up with food. You would be gagging, falling over. But ducks actually breathe through the center of their tongue. They're not gagging and being prevented from breathing. In fact, they store fat in their liver, which is unlike us. But it sounds...
Currier residents tried to spice up their delivery by donning bathing suits for their tour of the Yard. The method seems to have worked. Says Currier resident Marsha Sukach...
...wandering girl, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), as she marches toward her inevitable death. In preparation for the film, Varda became a vagabond herself, wandering and meeting people who would not only inspire characters in the film, but would also play themselves, speaking lines written by Varda. This is an unusual method for filmmakers—so unusual that it merited Varda’s development of her own term—‘cinécriture’ (film writing, or film essay)—to describe her way of approaching and piecing together a film...
...museum is home to the single finest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities the world has ever seen: The Vase of Warka, the first naturalist depiction of human life in stone; The Mask of Warka, the first naturalist depiction of the human face; The Bassetki statue, the first known lost-wax method of copper casting. On and on and on. Every step you take in the Iraq museum, you get to say "the first." If there were truly a cradle of civilization, you can't get closer to it than the Iraq museum. Its opening proclaims to the world that Iraq...
Providing easily accessible information about dining hall food certainly helps students navigate their dining options. The old calorie cards, however, were a flawed method of encouraging healthful eating habits because the number of calories contained in a food item is not the only measure of its healthfulness. In fact, focusing only on calorie counts can lead to very unhealthful eating behavior, and many students pointed out that publicly displaying such information could be harmful for students already struggling with eating disorders. HUDS made the right decision to support those students by removing the cards from beside each dish...