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Kevin O'Leary stars on ABC's new business reality show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O'Leary often delivers the harshest of the business critiques. On a recent show, he called one small-business owner "radioactive." On another show he told a woman who said her products spread happiness that her business was worthless...
...rescued species from the brink of extinction when everybody else laughed at them. One example is the California condor. At one time, there were just 12 of these birds left in the wild and one in captivity. Now there are 300. This bird would have gone but for a small group of people who would not give up. As long as we have people like that, there's hope for the future...
...College founded by a charter in 1655 lay underneath Matthews Hall. Professor Christina Hodge describes the course as “an unusual kind of course at Harvard. There aren’t that many courses where students literally have their hands in the dirt.” The small but well-edited collection in the Peabody Museum explores three aspects of life at 17th-century Harvard: negotiations of social status, rule breaking and religion, and literacy and the Indian College. Artifacts related to the serving and eating of food provide evidence of social tensions. Shards of dishes and tableware...
...years and volumes of red tape later, Sipsmith was launched this past June. The centerpiece of the operations is the elegant, gleaming copper still, nicknamed Prudence by the founders. Custom-made by Christian Carl, a small family-run distillery maker in Bavaria, the still is the first in London for 189 years and was assembled on-site in the garage, which also doubles as a tasting and sales room...
...coziness of the space, Prudence's affable bulk and the small run all conspire to create a very intimate drinking experience. Each week, Sipsmith produces around 200 bottles, filling the small garage with heady, fruity aromas. The dry gin blends 10 botanicals including almonds, Seville orange peel and licorice root; while the vodka gives off a sweet, buttery vapor. Galsworthy and Hall constantly experiment with blends; the most successful to date is a vodka that smells and tastes exactly like English mustard. (See pictures of whisky being made...