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...wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book will help others see cleaning crises the way she does: as puzzles. "It's basic chemistry," she says. "The building blocks of everything around you are pretty...
They were in the wrong place, but Steve Webb's archaeology class decided to stay anyway. A colleague had mistakenly taken them to a site they'd never visited before, a nondescript-looking claypan lost among the pale dunes in the Willandra Lakes region of far western New South Wales. Luckily, Webb thought it would still make good practice fieldwork for his Aboriginal students after a week of classes in the nearby town of Mildura. He was walking behind one of them, 26-year-old Mary Pappin Jr., when she called out that she'd seen something. What...
...sentiment that HRL’s campaign tends toward a sensationalizing of the abortion debate—and HRL would perhaps serve its purpose better if it did not alienate more centrist students in the way this campaign is likely to—these posters are hardly beyond the pale for a University that prides itself on the open exchange of diverse ideas. Students should have enough backbone to tolerate alternate viewpoints without allowing infantile instincts to govern their behavior. Those who claim an equivalent right of expression in tearing down the posters have a horribly impoverished notion of this...
...taking lessons, getting coaching, and taking advantage of going to the gym.” But for students who don’t frequent the gym, even walking from class to class is enough to vastly improve health, according to Simon. “People think walking is a pale second best and a waste of time,” he said, explaining that astoundingly small amounts of exercise can have enormous benefits. Simon’s research found that walking just eight extra flights of stairs a day decreased death rates by 33 percent. In the book, Simon sets...
...genders of the participants. Davenport-Hines argues that Sodom and Gomorrah, "the first novel to present human sexuality as a continuum including bisexuality and the homosexual behavior of married men," opened the closet door for all subsequent literary references. The biographer admires Proust's courage, particularly since the pale, sad-eyed Frenchman was almost constantly concerned that he would be publicly humiliated for his preference, as Oscar Wilde had been not long before. While accepting his subject's neediness, drug abuse and manipulation, Davenport-Hines recognizes Proust's "mastery of human characterization." And the biographer understands his subject's obsession...