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...Much is made of the regimen Kate wants to put her surrogate on. Angie argues that a package of food stamped ?organic? kind of defeats its own purpose if it deprives consumers of the basic allure of food: yumminess. As she opines, ?That crap?s for rich people who hate themselves.? And later: ?I?m not tryin? to be dramatic, but I would rather be shot in the face than eat this food.? Why shouldn?t she stick to her diet of Dr. Pepper, Pringles, TastyKakes, Red Bull and the occasional cigarette? And when threats...
...chose to do most of your requirements for Gen Ed after freshman year, then absolutely,” added Smith, who is also chair of the Core Standing Committee. “You won’t have zero choices.... But will the menu of choices be as rich this year [2008-9] as it will be the next year...
...England and come back sexier and more palatable. Co-ed quintet The Heavy, from the suburbs of Bath, takes a page from this book on their new album “Great Vengeance and Furious Fire,” blending their sexy British sound with one steeped in the rich American heirlooms of blues and funk. With a mixture of gospel-infused vocals, R&B beats, and garage rock sounds, they manage to simultaneously call Sonic Youth and Prince to mind, swaying between being more heavily influenced by one or the other throughout the album. Although the result...
...tremendous skill for description, occasionally lets himself become a little lazy in crafting the characters he describes, some of whom retain the strange, menacing darkness that would fit better in a Dan Brown novel. Selfish, conniving, and sometimes senselessly cruel, these characters seem inappropriately one-sided alongside the other rich characters who populate the novel. Still, what would be cardboard cut-outs in another author’s hands seem almost real in Docx’s. “Be as charming as champagne,” one solely conniving character thinks to himself as he winds himself...
...prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds. Malawi's harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is controlling those diseases...