Word: midwesternizing
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...Skinner runs the EPA's Midwestern district, which includes six states from Ohio, west to Illinois and northwest to Minnesota. His relative anonymity, even among liberal beltway EPA watchers, could be a bonus; a blank political slate can trump a documented history. As head of an EPA regional office (and former Illinois EPA chief), Skinner sees to it that states and the companies within them comply with the agency's rules and standards - licensing and inspecting big polluters, and issuing clean-up orders...
...love affair with a sport that in a bad year, by his estimate, can kill 1 in 30 of its practitioners. Ramo buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour. He makes pilgrimages to obscure Midwestern airfields for aerobatics competitions, and he seeks out those few masters of the sport who have survived long enough to pass on their wisdom. One of their truisms: "You will almost kill yourself once every hundred hours of flying...
...MIDWESTERN MUSCLE...
...just in time to watch Christopher Kimball, “America’s Test Kitchen” host and Cook’s Illustrated chief editor, pull a pan of macaroni and cheese out of the oven. This was not any ordinary collegiate Easy Mac or tired Midwestern casserole; Kimball’s take on the American classic includes four cheeses: Fontina, Gorgonzola, Parmesan and Pecorino. Ahn oohed and ahhed when given an off-camera chance to sample. Soft and fluffy blueberry pancakes followed and Ahn picked up a few tips: substitute lemon juice and milk when...
...latest project, which brought her to Central America, is a comparative study of labor monitoring procedures in developing countries. Yet Seidman, who now teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, still jokingly insists that she is a “completely boring Midwestern academic...