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Shira Palmer-Sherman '02, who died Dec. 22 after being struck by a car the week before, was remembered by friends and family her funeral and in informal gatherings over the past two weeks...
Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...
Having observed and occasionally spoken to both Gore and Bush during this postelection flurry, I was struck that the way they handled this period showed again how different they are, though each admirable in his own way. Gore masters the details; when talking about the contest, he would refer to facts and stories he'd downloaded onto his Blackberry pocket e-mail device. Bush is impatient with distracting details, just as he is with the cedar undergrowth on his ranch, which he clears with a vengeance because it distracts his view of the big picture. Gore personally managed his legal...
...blending some 11 cups of flour, six cups of sugar, a pound of butter and various other ingredients into an array of sweet treats. Martha Stewart's maddeningly precise and time-consuming recipe almost drove me to the pop-open cans, while AllRecipes' obtuse instructions and cake-mix ingredients struck me as suspect. I liked Epicurious' tip for using a sandwich bag with a hole in the bottom corner to drizzle on glaze like a pro, and found cooking.com's guidelines to be the most straightforward...
...usually fairly skeptical about any research study that concludes that Americans are either happier or unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. While any of these statements might be true, they are practically impossible to prove scientifically. Still, I was struck by a report that appeared last week in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, comparing decades' worth of scores on tests that measure the level of an individual's day-to-day anxiety. The study's author, research psychologist Jean Twenge of Case Western Reserve University, concluded...