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...fixture of the restaurant since it opened a discreet door in 1984. Chef Cheung Kam-chuen, the establishment's guiding light from the beginning, has also devised commemorative dishes, including the spectacular Yunnan ham and flowering chives in a black truffle glaze, and poached lobster and bird's nest in egg white. "Guests have become increasingly discerning over the past 20 years," says Cheung. Fortunately, the restaurant has kept pace with them, every step...
Rachel Bolden-Kramer ’06, who sits on HSF’s coordinating committee, calls HSF the categorical opposite of finals clubs—a nest of cooperation where the branches of Harvard’s social justice effort can consolidate and pool their resources. With the help of FCL, the house has also been used by other non-profits such as the League of Independent Voters, Global Justice and the Sierra Club. HSF, which associates itself with a large number of student groups ranging from the Spoken Word Society and Socialist Alternative to the Black Men?...
Your daughter just left for college. How's the empty nest? I went right on the road again. I'm not gonna sit around and feel terrible. The dog isn't doing too well...
...direct ancestors of modern birds, both Chiappe and Norell argue that the birds' forebears could just as easily have been troodontids like Mei long or even oviraptors, another related type of dinosaur. (Several years ago in Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly sleeping on the ground. But if flight began as flying-squirrel-like glides out of trees, he wonders, "wouldn't it have been safer resting in a tree...
...flare only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts, employee share ownership and corporate social responsibility. And where has all that gone? Nowhere." Prolific Latham can also appear flaky and insincere, with some of the weaknesses of an autodidact...