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...wood chips, insulating material and cement. The hollow cores of the forms are filled with concrete to become walls that resist fire, termites and rot. Even the concrete has a high content of fly ash, a waste by-product from power plants that requires less energy to produce than standard cement. Plus, there was minimal reliance on toxic chemicals in things like adhesives or piping. "Anything that ends in an 'ethylene'?you definitely want that out," says Good. "Also, no chlorines, no benzenes...
...There is a quality standard that applies to every product in the store," explains A.C. Gallo, the other half of the co-president, co-COO team. That means no artificial colors, additives or preservatives. For meat, it means no antibiotics, hormones and animal by-products in the feeds, including in deli meats. For fish, it means no antibiotics, mercury or PCBS. (Whole Foods owns a seafood supplier on each coast...
...Kick Push,” an ode to the essential motions of the sport, already has the chips stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn’t the standard booty-shaking fare. It’s pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing the decidedly gawky Fiasco jerking around in front of the camera. Swimming in an oversized hoodie, with...
...novel also enjoys a fascinating historical context. “Love in a Cold Climate,” along with Mitford’s other semi-autobiographical novels, began the onslaught of Mitford memoirs, autobiographies, documentaries, and television dramatizations that the London Evening Standard termed “The Mitford Industry...
...more qualified people want to apply.” Roland C. Nadler ’09, who applied to be a peer advising fellow, said that applicants who applied only for the money would be weeded out by the application process. The preliminary application, aside from requesting standard academic, extracurricular and contact information, included two short answer questions: what piece of advice the candidate wished he or she had been given as a freshman and a letter of introduction to a hypothetical freshman advisee. “It really did make me have to sit down and think...