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...calories, but only to spend the $3.50. He has never distracted himself in class by adding up the day's calories, and he's never spent two or 15 or 100 minutes regretting his dessert--feeling with a visceral certainty that belies all nutritional science that the second peanut butter cookie has gone directly and instantaneously to his thighs...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Dieting Dilemmas--Just a Waste of Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...drank a lot of Coke so I was always a very spastic kid. I was always knocking things over in my own house and banging my head. Captain Crunch is the best. It makes me too shaky because it's so sugary - Captain Crunch with berries... mmm, and with peanut butter...oh no, it's just so delicious...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Molly Shannon: Finally a Superstar | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...researching. But personal assistants display as much, if not more, ingenuity in their own jobs. For example, one personal assistant to a handful of Hollywood luminaries explained to the New York Times that her job requires the "innate ability to get things done. If the star asks you for peanut butter from Japan, you don't ask, 'How do I get it?' You just say, 'O.K.'" If that's not resourcefulness, I don't know what is. And you can't get that type of real world experience sitting at an office desk...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: One Alternative to Recruiting | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...just like the Ryder Cup, the Crimson Cup tournament would be an elitist event. We'd invite only our Ivy League rivals, making snobbery towards our foes not just tolerated but enthusiastically encouraged. Jeering and heckling would be mainstays in the Crimson Cup peanut gallery...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: A Shot in the Arm for Harvard Sports | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...wrote Walter Lippmann a few days after Radio City Music Hall opened its doors in 1932, "a pedestal built to sustain a peanut." Describing the entire Rockefeller Center complex in which the Music Hall sat, Lewis Mumford called it "the sorriest failure of imagination and intelligence in modern American architecture." And they were among the kinder critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Encore, Encore | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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