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...call a disorder. He's a synesthete--one of a small group of otherwise ordinary citizens who perceive the world in extraordinary ways. Synesthesia is a kind of crossing of sensory signals in which the stimulation of one sense evokes another; purple may smell like kiwi; the aroma of mint may feel like glass; letters and digits might scroll by in Technicolor. This week a few dozen synesthetes and the psychologists who study them will gather at Princeton University for the first meeting of the American Synesthesia Association--a society devoted to furthering research into the phenomenon in the hopes...
With Nobu, New Yorkers' palates and vocabularies expanded. A decade ago, when Tadashi Ono became the executive chef at the renowned La Caravelle, the owners omitted any mention in the menu of ingredients like yuzu, a tart citrus fruit, and shiso, a mint-like herb, because the exotic terms intimidated diners. Today, at Ono's own restaurant, Sono, waiters proudly tout the yuzu cosmopolitan and shiso margarita...
...resources not available to the other side of the living wage debate in an attempt to sway student opinion. That seems less like a Harvard University Police Department alert and more like Rudenstine sending us his endorsements for local congressional races, informing us of a special deal on Franklin Mint commemorative plates, or helping us to get rich quick. That our president decided to make his side of the living wage debate his first missive to all undergraduates concerns me; that he did so through a mass e-mail seems a breach of netiquette...
...from trying to make Christie Whitman look bad, these ritual undercuttings - on CO2 emissions in March and now ANWR - are part of an exquisitely orchestrated plot to make Whitman, whose environmental record as New Jersey governor was far from mint green, into the Sierra Club's Woman of the Year...
...average eBay user stays on the site for an hour and a half, which is an extraordinarily long time by Internet standards (even the bookish Amazon.com user only hangs around for 18 minutes). That's because visitors don't just bargain-hunt or post pictures of their mint-condition pool table; they build communities. Trust is a tangible thing in this world, with sellers receiving an all-important democratic rating based on how often they have delivered the goods as promised by the agreed-upon date. When suspect wares - like supposed organ sales - slip unseen into the massive mElange...