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...quests ended in failure and countless cupcake tastings resulted in comments about the cupcake being “uninspired,” I always cherished the search. The perfect cupcake is not simply a taste, but also an act. You may sometimes come upon the cupcake with the perfect ratio of frosting to cake bottom, while many other times you are left with the untouched sand-tasting cupcake from the Kosher birthday party. And once in a while, you are left wondering how a brown sugar cupcake with bacon bits could ever taste good. Here’s to hoping...
...Both your martial arts teacher and your relief pitcher are a little chubby... I've found that there's a perfect ratio of comedy fat that needs to be on the bone, to make things funny...
...footprint of your menu is to eat less meat, especially beef. Raising cattle takes a lot more energy than growing the equivalent amount of grains, fruits or vegetables: most produce requires about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy to cultivate per 1 calorie of food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1. What's more, the majority of cattle in the U.S. are reared on grain and loads of it--670 million tons in 2002--and the fertilizer used to grow that feed creates separate environmental problems, including surface runoff that leads to dead...
...Coordinator Clare MacLean. The economics department—which has one of the highest student-to-faculty ratios—introduced the 16-person courses three years ago as a result of a College-wide push to increase student interaction with faculty members. “The student-teacher ratio is well out of whack,” said Sendhil Mullainathan, an economics professor who also taught a seminar this fall. Recent departures have worsened the situation. In the past few weeks, the department has lost several faculty members to the Obama administration. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...plucked, stickers will peel, and all the while pepsi will remain its newly diminutive self. But as a recently revealed internal branding document entitled “Breathtaking Design Strategy” claims, the new Pepsi logo is in fact based on the tried-and-true, God-given Golden Ratio; they call it “aesthetic geometry.” Or in AdSpeak, “We can’t believe you paid us that much money to move some lines around.”The biggest problem PepsiCo. faces, it seems, will be curbing vandalism?...