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...company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of blackcurrant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes in perfumes are comforting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet Perfumes | 1/25/2004 | See Source »

Thus were born the Boohbahs: Jumbah (blue), Jingbah (pink), Humbah (yellow), Zumbah (purple) and the irrepressible Zing Zing Zingbah (orange). (As a result of the technical process used to create the show's special effects, there isn't, and never will be, a green Boohbah.) The Boohbahs have pear-shaped bodies that sparkle as if they have swallowed strings of Christmas lights, and when they move, they make oddly satisfying, pneumatic sounds not a little reminiscent of flatulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tubby, And Bouncy Too | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Still Jennifer Lopez, which features top notes of sake. "Rum, licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris. The company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of black-currant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes in perfumes are comforting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet Perfumes | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

Cardiologists have long known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why So Many Of Us Are Getting Diabetes | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...posters in every dining hall proclaim that we are being treated to an increased variety of “hand fruit,” yet, every day, the fruit is the same—two varieties of inedible apples (in apple season!), oranges, banana, and the occasional rock-hard pear. A traditional HUDS healthy and delicious menu item, lox at Sunday brunch, has not made an appearance at Mather House, and I’ve been told by the staff that it’s been cut from the HUDS menu for good. And hot breakfast, the start...

Author: By Shira R.A. Pinnas, | Title: New HUDS Menu Not As Healthy As Promoted | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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