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...Love fresh corn, but hate having a butter-covered face and a smile full of niblets? Kuhn Rikon's Corn Zipper, which resembles a happy metallic stingray, allows you to strip kernels from raw or cooked ears without chopping off a finger. Holding the gadget in one hand, simply rub it down the ear and - voilà! - corn off the cob. kuhnrikon.com Have s'more Campfire lovers can swap their whittled marshmallow sticks for Hammacher Schlemmer's Marshmallow Rotisserie. This rotating trident cooks the s'mores staples evenly. The handle is heat-resistant and the stainless-steel tines clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Cooking | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...political, and it never occurred to me in 1956 or 1960 that I should—or that I, as an individual student, could—do anything directly about the election. Many of the faculty members were active in these campaigns, but that didn’t rub off on most of us. My public service consisted of helping form the Harvard Motor Scooter Corps of Cambridge Civil Defense, which, in case of nuclear attack, would ride out to find passable roads for fire trucks...

Author: By James F. Flug | Title: Back to the Future: 50 Years Later a Freshman Returns | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...severe that the Earth’s oceans froze over completely. According to some, it could happen again. And ESPPers are the only ones who will be equipped to stop it! And if it isn’t enough that ESPP concentrators can stop a new ice age or rub elbows with Al Gore when he comes to visit ESPP 10 (it happened in 2004), they may also get a surprise trip to Madagascar. Professor Glenn Adelson, the recipient of two Levenson Teaching awards, takes his junior tutorial, “Conservation, Nature, and Biodiversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Environmental Science and Public Policy | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...means that Profs can teach about whatever interests them, from popular Japanese legends (see: “The Tale of Genji”) to broad, sweeping genres that attempt to cover the entirety of the space-time continuum (“Galaxies and the Universe”). You can rub elbows with Nobel Prize winners such as physicist Roy J. Glauber and star professors like Louis Menand in an intimate setting and, if you’re lucky, may even manage to score a Spring Break fieldtrip to Tokyo. Though these courses may officially be “freed from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Seminars | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...whip the lazy literati into shape. When it comes to selecting a QR, humanities students fall for QR 22, “Deductive Logic” like tourists fall for John Harvard’s shiny shoe. Whether it’s one nasty midterm or one nasty rub, it only takes one sticky encounter before you know better. Unsuspecting innumerates hear the class deals only with their buddy the symbol. Then they close-read the title and deduce something of their own: Deductive Logic. No numbers! Only reason! Deduce again literati: this is a class on proofs, which you?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quantitative Reasoning | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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