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...Nutella, a hazelnut chocolate mix from the Netherlands, provides perhaps the most pungent fix of pure chocolate imaginable. If you haven't eaten Nutella before, it is suggested that you start slowly, working gradually up to your first full spoon in order to avoid an overdose. Kristin E. Kitchen `03, who has developed a powerful appreciation for the chocolate in a jar says, "We have a Nutella spoon for each roommate and an extra spoon for guests...

Author: By N. O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Food That Will See The New Millenium | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...same type of community network that American colleges have." "It's hard," says Rachel Polner, "if you do have a serious problem, because you can't just hop on a flight and be home in two hours." Trinity's Filbi warns that in Ireland, "we don't spoon-feed our students." Jessi Hathaway, 18, who left her home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to begin studies at Trinity this year, suggests other Americans plan to bring "an outgoing personality and a sense of adventure" if they plan to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: College Abroad | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...also captured Bill Clinton as a waffle dripping with maple syrup, combining in one small image both the president's indecisiveness and his passion for food, and portrayed Vice President Al Gore '69 as a young child sitting on the lap of his Senator father, waiting to be spoon-fed the presidency. This year, though, the images will be harder to make new. The current presidential race is shaping up as the embodiment of the old proverb: history the first time is tragedy but when repeated is farce...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Notes From Walden Puddle | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

After switching to a spinner bait--a silver spoon of sorts with a hook--I snagged a small fish of my own. Actually, it is possibly the smallest fish I have ever seen. At time of print, I am not certain as to whether the tiny whiting was actually hungry or was attempting to engage in fin-to-fin combat with its peer out of insecurity...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Father, Son and the Firechicken | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...Issatu's father is humble, polite and upset. "Any time she goes somewhere with us, I want to cry because they have destroyed her looks," he says. Issatu went to Handicap International's clinic in Freetown and got a leather strap to help her hold a spoon on the end of her right arm. She smiles as she shows it off. "Before, I used to eat by holding the spoon between my arms," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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