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What the Quincy House dining hall lacks in actual fresh and delicious vegetables it makes up for in concern for the freshness of its produce. At least it did the week of May 20th when bestselling cookbook author and vegetarian cuisine pioneer Mollie Katzen, of Moosewood Cookbook fame, surveyed the dining hall crowd, listening intently as Quincy residents described occasionally still-frozen broccoli florets and the frustrating abundance of white grains...
DIED. DAVID IVES, 84, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) pioneer; in San Francisco. During his 14 years as head of Boston's WGBH, that station became PBS's largest programming supplier, responsible for developing such PBS staples as Masterpiece Theatre, Frontline and Nova, many with British pedigrees. His station also introduced Americans in 1974 to the British cult comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...vary with gender. That's why we don't have co-ed sprinting races or expect women to compete with men in the shot-put. But what we have in common as human beings vastly overwhelms what differentiates us as members of one gender or another. Sorenstam is a pioneer in accepting this, and reveling in it. She's not indistinguishable from the men; but she is competitive with them. She's different but equal...
Think online grocers are forgotten relics from the dotcom boom days? Not so. Webvan, the e-grocery pioneer that was supposed to revolutionize the way people shop, is dead and gone, but the idea behind it lives on. According to Jupiter Research, consumers this year will buy more than $2 billion worth of groceries online--more than three times what they spent in Webvan's heyday back...
...scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and a pioneer in the early use of the AIDS cocktail, might already have one of those drugs. Even better than stopping a virus? replication is preventing infection in the first place. The coronavirus attacks cells by latching onto receptors on a cell?s surface, fusing with the cell and then infecting it. Ho believes custom-designed peptides?snippets of proteins?might be able to block the virus from interacting with the cell receptors. Called fusion inhibitors, the compounds are being used with success in HIV patients...