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...Freshman 15 next fall. Le Whiff, a mini inhaler that sprays the taste of chocolate without actually imparting anything caloric, is now on the market. Developed by Professor David Edwards and some of his students from Engineering Sciences 147, Le Whiff is one product of Harvard research that makes FlyBy think, "What? Cool! Why?" The answers, after the jump...
...average customer who is more interested in Miss. Right Now than Miss. Right, the supplier has minimum power in distinguishing her product. The high availability of competing female firms with similar products also undermines the bargaining power of suppliers...
Since the new administration took office, Republicans have been seemingly bereft of ideas for fixing the economy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may not have been as nurturing of bipartisanship as some would have wanted in finalizing the stimulus bill in the House, but the final product included enough tax breaks to warrant support from a significant portion of the Republican caucus. That only three Republicans between the House and Senate voted in favor of the bill only made them seem like obstructionists in the eyes of the American people...
...turned flat and hard. Passover began on April 8 this year, and for the next eight days, Jewish people all over the world will remember their exodus by forgoing cakes, cookies, pasta and noodles - anything made to rise with yeast, baking soda, etc. - in favor of the only bread product they're allowed: matzo...
...thousands of years, the story of matzo remained relatively unchanged. For one week during Passover, observant Jews refrained from any leavened bread product (meaning, anything made from dough that is able to rise), replacing it with irregularly shaped discs of handmade matzo. Orthodox Jews went a step further, eating only shmurah, or "guarded" matzo made from grains that had been watched by a Jewish official from the moment of harvest to ensure that they never came into contact with a liquid that would lead to accidental leavening. According to rabbinic law, once the flour is combined with water, matzo dough...