Word: muffins
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...Upperclassmen will obviously still be partying, as they understand that “required reading” is always only “suggested reading.” Yet you freshmen, with your over-achieving habits still intact, will find yourself nibbling on a pre-wrapped muffin and sucking down coffee at 4 a.m. at a café in Lamont Library, while you bemoan the fact that Harvard actually requires (some) mental exertion and print out a transfer app to Yale. Finally, some of you may have already begun to think about classes. Likely, you’ll want some...
...company was making a million pounds annually as a low-friction coating for bearings and gears. In 1960 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it for use in cookware. Today some 60% of all pots and pans in American kitchens are nonstick--to say nothing of muffin pans, cookie sheets, cake pans, deep fryers and waffle irons...
...independence-and the chatterati spent most of their time ignoring the messages and gossiping about the messengers. The debut of Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, served as the excuse for a typhoon of speculation about whether he was running for President in 2008. Senator Clinton's sturdy bran muffin of a speech about the environment-it read like a term paper but was filled with smart detail and inconvenient truthfulness-was almost totally ignored because the New York Times decided to print a front-page story revealing the shocking fact that she and Bill were...still married...
Heather, a starling-eyed cashier at my favorite coffee shop, advised a radical change in muffin choice. “Live dangerously,” she said while swiping the Visa. Little did she know I was already in danger. At 6 p.m., I had yet to begin a research paper that was due the following morning...
...heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn't until 1960 that it coated pans and muffin tins. Today pacemakers and other devices use it, as it's one of the few materials the body doesn't reject...