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...which authority was transferred first to Cheney and then to David Petraeus), on the regulation of major economic institutions and, of course, after Hurricane Katrina - will come to be seen, I suspect, as the defining failure of George W. Bush as President. One hundred years from now, historians will scratch their heads and ask themselves the same question that plagues Alice Blackwell: How did this amiable but feckless man ever get to be President? Curtis Sittenfeld has provided a plausible secret history of an American embarrassment - and a grand entertainment...
...every school can afford to build sustainable eateries from scratch, and not every school can even get rid of trays. Many colleges run up against common infrastructural and cultural barriers - such as cafeteria washroom rollers that can't easily accommodate plates that aren't on trays, or campus residents who just can't get on board with a tray-free lunch. At some schools, like Middlebury in Vermont, trays were simply removed, and administrators let the grumbling subside. But at most other colleges, the movement has been grounded in community discussion on sustainability concepts - so students and faculty...
...then, in our ability to shape a better world, we've got to be honest and mindful of the fact that different countries are at different phases, have different cultural histories. And if we think that we can just plunge in and, say, create a democracy from scratch in five years, then we're badly mistaken...
...past decade, a dozen or so places have released scratch-and-sniff and lick-and-taste stamps. Switzerland had a chocolate-scented version, Britain a eucalyptus one, New Zealand a magnolia-smelling stamp and Hong Kong one that tasted of green tea. Britain has also produced a stamp with a hologram, and Switzerland a Braille stamp...
...down, take out the old sewing machine, and just make something? -Gina Chen, Troy, MII am resourceful and time-conscious and sometimes what I'll do is hem a pair of pants, do something very basic like that. I am not sitting down and creating a garment from scratch...