Word: sweets
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...suspect Petersen was going for a rousing battle-cry. What he produced instead were sweet cooing noises. Unsurprisingly, this intimidated nobody. “I thought he was great,” said President Faust. “I thought he spoke his mind...
...Little sibs, big roleFor eldest siblings, this is a pretty sweet deal. There is not much incentive for them to change a family system that provides them so many goodies, and typically they don't try to. Younger siblings see things differently and struggle early on to shake up the existing order. They clearly don't have size on their side, as their physically larger siblings keep them in line with what researchers call a high-power strategy. "If you're bigger than your siblings, you punch 'em," Sulloway says...
...also the opening of their new theater space."For the past couple of years the space was constraining," Lachter says. "We still put on great shows, but it didn't do the awesome nature of the shows justice. Now all the creative juices are flowing under one spectacularly sweet roof."-Staff writer Jessica X.Y. Rothenburg can be reached at jxyroth@fas.harvard.edu...
...commendable effort to integrate local and seasonal foods into our monotonous diets, the proof is not in the pudding. Our dining halls and their all-inclusive meal plans supposedly exist to foster a culture of learning, even at mealtime. But those looking for information about why we should eat sweet corn in the summer and root vegetables in the winter will find few explanations.In some ways, the answer is obvious: sweet corn is ripe in the summer, and root vegetables last into the winter. But the simplicity of this answer exposes the error of the HUDS campaign. Seasonal eating...
...week wasn't all sweet. Between the creation of StatoilHydro, as the company is known for now (the firm is still mulling over a permanent name change), and the royal ceremony, Reiten was generating headlines of his own. On the day of the merger, StatoilHydro announced it had launched a probe into the legality of approximately $7 million in consultancy fees and expenses Hydro paid as part of its oil operations in Libya. Although it has not disclosed the name of the consultancy Hydro paid or what laws it might have broken, StatoilHydro said the payments came to light during...