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...years, baseball romantics have sung the praises of spring training, those six weeks in the sun where players fine-tune their skills for the upcoming baseball season. But while it may be a sweet deal for the Florida and Arizona locals, or the snowbirds that can flock down south to get cozy with their favorite stars, it's pure torture for the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Spring Training a Waste of Time? | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...finally eating local, and it tasted great. Ted's yellow wax beans last year were so crisp and oniony sweet you could eat them directly from the field. During the winter months, Ted has delivered sturdy vegetables from his cold storage that look as good as anything at Whole Foods and seem to taste better, if only because they remind me of a warm day on the farm. And yet I do worry that the Blomgrens aren't certified by the Federal Government as organic growers. They say they don't use synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, and Ted's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...stealing the coffee,” she explains. As humanities concentrators have known for ages, you can get free Starbucks every weekday morning in the Barker Center (what—you’re still paying 3 bucks for it on Church Street?). Although this may sound like a sweet deal to those who’ve never hit up the rotunda for a jolt of free caffeine, Barker Center regulars are lamenting the passing of the good old days. In front of the Barker Center Café, an unobtrusive sign advertises: “Free Coffee. New Hours...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Free Coffee Hours to Coffee-Free Hours | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...Etheridge comes back stage and fields questions about all things gay. She declines to come up with a song for Grey's Anatomy's resident gay slur hurler, Isaiah Washington, talks sweet about Ellen hosting, calls the Oscars "a gay holiday" and raves about breaking new ground by thanking and kissing her wife: "I was kissing her because that's what you do. You kiss your loved one when you win an Oscar." She also reveals where she'll keep her Oscar: "This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oscars: Backstage Diary | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate obstacles to sleep with demands arising from its ultra-competitive environment. This culture—or our sleep patterns—cannot be changed by a few well-meaning seminars and pamphlets. The problem is vast, but the solution is simple, sweet, and already known: Each of us must make a proactive decision to reform personal sleep habits and thus recreate the culture of sleep at Harvard...

Author: By Paul G. Nauert | Title: Our Most Neglected Extracurricular | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

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