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...understand the grip vodka has on Russian culture, one need only to look at its name: vodka is a diminutive form of the word voda - Russian for water. The average Russian drinks 4.75 gal. (18 L) of pure alcohol a year, mostly in the form of vodka. Distilled from grains or potatoes, it has no real taste. It is not sipped; it is not savored. In fact, there's no real reason to drink it except to get drunk. With an alcohol content of between 40% and 55% (80-110 proof), vodka is consumed as a shot, usually...
...called it a theater - was a stage for the surgeon. Now it is a stage for an entire team of people to work in sync. The most important component [of the checklist] has turned out to be making sure that everybody in the room has been introduced by name and that people just take a minute to discuss the case in advance. I introduced the checklist in my operating room, and I've not gotten through a week without it catching a problem. It has been really eye-opening. You just realize how fundamentally fallible we are.(See pictures...
Originally called Get Out of Cambridge (like you didn't think about it during finals), gtrot.com has its humble beginnings in a final project whose success soon outgrew its name. After winning a competition for student entrepreneurs, Gtrot went live in September 2009 as a website in which users can search top travel brands for the best prices and then store their bookings on a personal profile to share and compare plans with friends...
...true networking fashion, people initially stood awkwardly in little clumps by alma mater, talking about how bad the economy was and how you, like, totally need to see Avatar. FlyBy joined the undergraduate clump and endured the regular firing round of questions (name, House, concentration). After idle small talk and some social lubrication, aided by the ridiculously long wine list and very reasonable drinking age of 19, the clumps started commingling. FlyBy felt immediately at home with the HCT because they, like this correspondent, were not that interested in American politics. Great...
What we had anticipated to be an awkward, find-a-job contest (in no small part implied by the event’s name) actually turned out to be an awkward, relaxing mixer. The Harvard Club of Toronto was very welcoming of everyone from lowly frosh to retired alumni, and no one was ever left out of a circle, fiddling with a glass and looking confused. Definitely one of the better networking events we've submitted ourselves to. Good job, Toronto, good...