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...ravioli--which has spread across the U.S. in the last few years. "There has been a revolutionary improvement in Italian food," says Tim Zagat, a co-founder of the restaurant guides that bear his name. Zagat doesn't credit Batali entirely for that improvement--in fact a much earlier pioneer was Lidia Bastianich, who was cooking in the authentic Italian vernacular at her New York City restaurants when Batali was rinsing beer glasses in college. But Zagat says Batali's visibility on the Food Network brought Italian culinary simplicity to a much wider audience...
Almost exactly one year ago, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team traveled to Denver and returned heartbroken after a 9-8 loss on two Pioneer goals with less than 24 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter...
...notorious '70s porno film, is optional. Porn is "so pervasive in our culture, most students have already seen it," Abramson explains. Showing it "seems unnecessary." Likewise, Catherine Sherwood-Puzello, who covers pornography in her human-sexuality class at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, the home of sex pioneer Alfred Kinsey's institute, displays Michelangelo's David and Playboy covers in her class but "no X-rated movies," she says. "Those are not a good way to explain porn," which she believes is best taught with the same dispassion with which one would teach a course on statistics...
Schools are seeking ways to sidestep such concerns. Iowa and Buffalo bar students under 18 from porn classes. At the University of California at Santa Barbara, Constance Penley, a film professor and porn-studies pioneer, says she tells her students that "I don't want to squelch their financial possibilities or creativity, but as a favor to me, could they not make a porn film until after they graduate?" Teaching them about porn is one thing. Training them for a career in the adult arts is another...
...with bits and pieces they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship. People...