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...think I haven't tried to poach eggs because I want to keep them special. As a kid, I'd wake up excited whenever my grandmother was in town, knowing she'd prepare two perfectly poached eggs for me--dark yolk oozing across shiny soft whites, soaking into lightly toasted bread--something my mom never got right. This was Jewish suburbia in the '70s; a decent poached egg was as close as we ever got to a madeleine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Perfect Egg | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...sure, eliminating early admission is not a risk-free endeavor. Other schools that keep early admissions programs may be able to poach top-notch candidates who wish to learn their fate a few months earlier. But the potential costs are worth the benefits, even to schools without Harvard’s reputation that use early admission to lure top students...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Good Riddance Early Admissions | 12/19/2006 | See Source »

Confronted with this evolving landscape, hedge funds have had to grow up. You can see it in the way managers trek to Washington for Capitol Hill meet-and-greets. You can see it in the way big-name banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup poach existing shops and expand their hedge-fund practices. You can see it in the run-up of bloated, billion-dollar-plus firms. You can see it in how hedgies talk about their industry as if it is an industry, and not an unrelated mishmash of investment strategies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Hedge Funds | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...people, shall not perish from the earth.” I am well aware it was a cliché, but my breath still caught in my throat. Afterwards, my friends and I strolled across the street to the National Cemetery. It was hot and we walked slowly, trying to poach some information from the group ahead of us that had shelled out $45 for a guide. We snapped photos of the gaudy monuments, but our eyes kept returning to the long arcs in the grass. These were rows of marble blocks, each carved with a number...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, | Title: Peace, Redefined | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

This $50 toaster will simultaneously brown your bread and poach an egg in the attached heating tray, producing a tasty breakfast sandwich in just four minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Kitchen Magic | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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