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...norm up until the 20th century, when the U.S. firm Morton Salt used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history," he says. "What saltmakers wanted to do was to have this consistent, pure, white salt, and once they succeeded, we got completely bored with it." Out of hundreds of salts, here are some regional delicacies...
...completely concerned with their partner’s well-being in the restaurant and at the club are sometimes less conscientious at checking in later in the night. The fallacy in Mansfield’s chivalry is that it is reserved for only certain moments, and in others, pure condescension and arrogance take over. In the transcript of his talk, Mansfield wonders how many assaults happened at Harvard when he was here as an undergraduate. Although I’m willing to bet the actual numbers are shocking, I’m sure Mansfield imagines there were hardly any among...
...reconciliation with his estranged son, Sébastien, who had broken ties with the Rémy—a self-described “sensual socialist”—by pursuing a career in international banking. Sébastien appears onscreen as the pure embodiment of the corporate lifestyle: he always wears expensive suits, he carries and spends a lot of cash and he is never without his cell phone...
...Kristi volunteered to write a last-minute article about the 2003 Dance Marathon. After convincing Marathon host and former “The Grind” dancer Eric Nies to do the Creep with her, Kristi returned to the Crimson at 3 a.m. and pounded out 500 words of pure FM goodness. This former Maryland Junior Miss has continued to amaze us with her endless supply of energy and enthusiasm. Not to mention she does a mean Running...
...other Italian nickname is 'Golden Calves'); another is that he can sing superbly ... Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from...