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...Fashioned glass or squat glass for the drink. Put sugar cube in the bottom and pour bitters over it to soak the sugar. Add liquor and orange slice if desired. Use a muddler, an instrument with a blunt end, to muddle the mixture. Make sure the sugar cube is crushed and the fruit juice released. Fill the glass with ice and top with soda if desired. Garnish with a cherry...

Author: By Alice O. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky-Drink | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...when they grow tall). Unlike Jill, though, Kate is a bit player in her own household, which is run by a nanny wielding absolute power. Kate doesn't know her daughter's best friend or how much her son weighs. She's a victim of reverse intimacy; her associates soak up so much time that she stays in touch with her real friends through increasingly heartfelt messages in which she cancels plans yet again. Like many professionals who leap a social class, she wonders--when her child demands pasta instead of canned SpaghettiOs--if "I've traveled this far...only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mummy Diaries | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...Cover the grist with hot water in order to change the grain to sugar. Soak the grain for an hour at 160 degrees Fahrenheit until the mixture is the consistency of oatmeal. Stir occasionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinky-Drink | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...than cause brief setbacks to the airline industry's fortunes, 9/11 and the recession exposed a raft of deeper problems: high fixed costs, a convoluted fare structure, a boom in online bargain hunting by consumers and the growing disaffection of business travelers and their bosses. The full-service airlines' soak-the-rich business model, which has always prized maximizing revenue over operational efficiency, looks all but busted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel Gets A New Model | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...media. While growing up here, I harbored violent objections to displaying my everything to a bunch of naked strangers. Only as an achy, fatigued adult has it begun to sink in: What better way to slow the insane pace of this jam-packed country than with a good, long soak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo - A Bath with a View | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

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