Word: mustards
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...answer to these questions is that, while Harvard's curriculum and student life are integral to the Harvard experience, so is the architecture. Would we come to Harvard if it looked like the bland, mustard-yellow public high schools that have infiltrated America? Would we appreciate our education as much if every building in the Yard resembled Vanserg Hall? Of course not, because Harvard's allure arises in part from its massive buildings that remind us of its past and our history: Memorial Church, Widener Library, the old river houses, the dorms of the Old Yard, Harvard Hall. Much...
Czech chemical-weapons experts, deployed along the Saudi-Iraqi border, detected sarin and mustard gas on three occasions in the war's opening days. Chemical-weapons alarms sounded in U.S., British and French units at the same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On his opponent's "No Newt" picnic] "No matter how much ketchup and mustard you put on [a hot dog], it's still baloney in a tube...
Land mines could go the way of mustard gas--at least for U.S. forces--starting in 1999 if a new, highly restrictive policy on the buried bombs is endorsed as expected this week by the Pentagon's regional commanders. The move has been spurred by a worldwide humanitarian campaign for a global ban on such weapons, which kill or injure 500 people a week, including many children. A U.S. ban seems certain to be enacted, though opponents are still arguing over details. Possible exceptions to any blanket prohibition on American use of mines include their deployment in the Korean Demilitarized...
...that theory. "You should feel comfortable knowing that everything we eat here is nonfat and vegetarian," he tells visitors to his Santa Monica, California, offices. A typical lunch, prepared by his private dietitian, consists of mushroom barley soup, a tofu egg-salad sandwich (the "egg" is actually tofu with mustard and spices ) with carrots and lettuce, and a black-bean-and-corn salad with a soy-based drink. One of Milken's favorites, an Egg McNothing, consists of a fat-free crumpet with soy cheese, vegetarian Canadian bacon and scrambled egg whites...