Word: minting
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...Peoria, Ill., junior cooks can whip up such specialties as strawberry salad and mint-brownie pie in classes sponsored by the Peoria Park District. Sur La Table, a nationwide chain that sells specialty cookware, offers summer cooking camps in its stores, with courses that include making sushi, pie baking and a chocolate workshop for teens. The chain also carries children's cookware; in 1997 kids' products accounted for 1% of its sales; today they account for 5%. New York City's American Museum of Natural History invites the children of its members to submit recipes to win a place...
...part, Susan P. Long ’02 said she will never have mint tea again—the beverage of choice of both Long and her thesis advisor. The two met frequently at Cafe Algiers during the last two weeks of putting the final touches on her thesis on Renaissance dueling and farce...
...money will do just fine. "It's all based on trust and credibility," says Mutsumi Nagai, a Yufuin restaurant owner who accepts two yufu for a 600-yen set lunch. Of course, basing financial transactions on trust instead of the national currency involves certain risks. If villagers can individually mint hundreds or even thousands of yufu, what's to prevent hyperinflation, with the locals carting wheelbarrows of Monopoly money to the neighborhood izakaya...
...couldn't do a thing to bring him back to life. Nearly every night of their four-year marriage, they had walked down to the Sedutto ice cream parlor on the corner. He always ordered mint chocolate chip in a cup; she got sugar-free, fat-free frozen yogurt. Mike had suddenly lost his taste for ice cream. "I'm just trying to be a little healthier," he would tell her whenever she suggested taking up the old routine. At a late-September reunion of her family, he seemed slightly more animated talking with her father and male cousins...
Like Grove, Bezos is confident that Segway will make a mint selling to the corporate market; also like Grove, he is less certain about its consumer prospects. "At Amazon, we didn't know at first, and nobody knew, whether people would want to buy books online, and the same is true for whether people will want to ride these," he says. "Walking is a superb mechanism for getting around--I don't see it being replaced anytime soon. And for long hauls, driving is darn good too. The question is whether there's a middle ground, some intermediate zone where...