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Gyuhama's sushi is delicious and has won several Best of Boston awards. The favorites of the Japanese and American trendy twenty-somethings who frequent the restaurant are the California Roll ($5.50), Unaki ($4.70), Vegetable Tempura and Chicken or Beef Teriyaki. Entrees are between $10 and $29. The miso soup and salad are traditional and excellent as well. The comprehensive menu is complemented by a large selection of mixed drinks, not to mention the excellent tangy-sweet Scorpion Bowls and potent hot sake...
That this profane creation could have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...
...first-year living in Pennypacker Hall, Sonesh S. Chainani '99 went to the Hong Kong Restaurant at least once a week to feast on rice and soup...
After learning that placebos can range from inert pills to actual doctors, after discovering the distinctions between "disease" and "illness," "healing" and "curing," one can venture into the last half of the collection, where a veritable alphabet soup of terms lurk and psychosomatic explorations abound. Abandon all hope, ye who wrestled with the QRR and plan to enter here: inverse relations and normalized sets of data concerning placebo efficacy literally pepper the pages. Authors Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields even include an exponential function describing the placebo effect (Feeling intensity = Desire x Expectation...
...blitz in London. The monarchy was, in those terrifying days, relevant and human. Today the royal family has shown us that it has become an irrelevant and valueless commodity. Britain should take what's left of the royals' obscene fortune and distribute it to the shelters and soup kitchens supported by Diana. She then will definitely not have died in vain. NEIL CARTER Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...