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Despite the culinary path followed by their teacher, volunteers and members of the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center (GBBCC) have struck a balance between decadence and the bare essentials. By serving Chinese food that is both modest and savory, the Tea House, a fundraising venture for the GBBCC, allows diners to enjoy simplicity and authenticity without sacrificing taste...
Though nothing in the laws of physics rules out quantum computers, qubits are maddeningly delicate. Experiments must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, and the slightest disturbance can cause the teetering quantum states to collapse. Given such obstacles, quantum computing's accomplishments have so far been rather modest: using a short string of atoms to find the factors of the number 15 or to search a "database" of eight items...
...unlikely success story. But Sait Akarlilar, the affable 63-year-old patriarch who created the brand in 1991, is nothing if not self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager he worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business and were ready to do it ourselves," he says...
...study, “A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rational for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military,” was published in the Fall 2002 edition of International Security, which subscribers received last month...
Giving up four goals in one game may not seem like a good weekend, even if the night before was a shutout. But in Grumet-Morris’ case, his performance this weekend can be seen as a modest success...