Word: nut
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...Founders have, in fact, become quite "evangelical" about space, says Londoner Trevor Beattie, a self-described "space nut" who has a scrapbook from his youth of the Armstrong's moon walk and the Apollo 13. "You'll get a sense of wonderment from everybody here," says the 47-year-old ad man. "You've got a bunch of believers who are going to make this happen. It's a lifelong dream for people." David Horowitz, a 55-year-old investment manager from Irvine, California, couldn't agree more. "It's changed me. We're doing things we should have been...
...August of 1639 “the Master” battered a student with a “wal-nut tree cudgel” so thoroughly that, in a time when a little physical discipline was common, he was sent to court for assault, according to the book “Three Centuries of Harvard” by Samuel E. Morison. Eaton was also accused of embezzlement. The “rogue,” as Gomes calls him, was dismissed, and Harvard risked closing its doors. It would take the able leadership of Henry Dunster to keep them open...
...biggest trends in the snack industry, unfortunately, is making things organic. This is stupid. Going highbrow with lowbrow is as unsatisfying as going lowbrow with highbrow (venison chili). Sure, the Planters Organic nut selections or the upcoming Newman's Own organic salsas are maybe, possibly, kind of healthier, but they taste the same. The Planters NUT-rition Energy Mix, however, brilliantly coats nutrition in energy--where nutrition is nuts and sesame sticks and energy is delicious sugar. Turns out even soy nuts are good if you coat them in chocolate...
...cook for myself, I don't not cook for myself. But the raw-food movement--whose full-time practitioners believe cooking saps ingredients of nutrition--actually requires a lot of equipment: dehydrators, blenders, food processors. It's not exactly as if I'm going to make an uncooked nut loaf with barbecue sauce myself...
...Avoid serving nuts and using nut oils-sesame, peanut, etc.-while cooking because for children with severe nut allergies, oil traces left on countertops can set off a reaction, even without eating the food in question...