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...contestants began a pie-eating contest. The department had purchased 22 pies of varying flavors including cherry, apple, blueberry, pecan, and “lemon krunch.” Contestants had exactly three minutes and 14 seconds to eat as much pie as they could...
...hope this victory will inspire my students to see what glories can be had through the studies of mathematics,” said Bloom, who said his favorite flavor of pie was pecan...
Thursday night pep rallies may be fairly unprecedented at Harvard, but in Texas, even the Pecan Springs Elementary cheerleaders use their Thursday nights to pump it up. The cheerleaders, who range “roughly two to four feet in height,” brought a crowd to its feet at their Blackshear Elementary audience at a recent rally, The Austin Chronicle reported. Not even home turf...
...fragile ecosystems of the coastal marshes, far from the urban meltdowns, communities weren't just inflamed, they were annihilated. In Cameron Parish, La., along the border with Texas, Rita washed towns like Creole, Oak Grove and Grand Chenier into the sea. In neighboring Vermilion Parish, the residents of Pecan Island returned to find little more than a mile-wide debris field choked with dead marsh grasses...
...dooms many farmers to subsistence living in a world where coffee is abundant. The solution was to go upmarket and try to make Rwanda more famous for fabulous coffee than for murder. Rwanda has the ideal climate for growing quality beans, and its coffee has "notes of fruit and pecan," says David Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvest, a coffee importer. "It has a taste you can't find anywhere else in the world." Getting that unique taste to market required a new approach. So Clay - with Texas A&M professor Tim Schilling; Emile Rwamasirabo, then rector of the National University...