Word: teas
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...several years, San Francisco has offered curbside recycling of food scraps, shipping leftovers to industrial-scale composting facilities, which process 300 tons of organic waste a day. For Feinstein, the curbside program allows her to salve her green conscience without the ickiness that came from composting her own used tea bags. "It's great because it helps me do my job of diverting garbage from the landfill," she says. "And it's really easy...
...have often said that everything I have learned at Harvard, I have learned from Salada teabags. Salada, if you’re not familiar with it, is the off-brand orange pekoe tea HUDS buys; each teabag comes with a delightfully punny or inspirational aphorism. After each meal in the dining hall, I would pick out a teabag and ponder the message on its label. The tea itself isn’t particularly good, but taste is a small price to pay for spiritual clarity.Take this gem, for example: “I’ve never looked through...
Pleasantries have barely been exchanged - the tea hasn't even been served - before Haji Kaadam Jabbar Hamsa al-Qarghuli lets Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rohling have it. "I am very angry," says the leader of one of the area's Qarghuli tribes to the commander of the U.S. Army unit in charge of the area surrounding the town of Yusufiyah, which is about 10 miles south of Baghdad. "We are trying to work together," he says, "but dignity comes first...
...Tea lights, arranged in the shape of a heart on the steps of Memorial Church, flickered in the wind Sunday evening as a memorial to the devastation caused by the earthquake that rocked the Sichuan province of China last week...
...history, natural disasters have been viewed as both portents of change and tests of the government's "mandate of heaven." Many Chinese point out that Mao Zedong died only months after the Tangshan quake. The May 12 quake is being discussed in similar terms in Internet forums, restaurants and tea shops, often generating an inchoate anxiety about possible calamities to come or punishment for past wrongs. Some find a grim significance in the fact that it occurred at the boundary of China and Tibet--where military intervention in demonstrations against Beijing's rule resulted in bloodshed in March, sparking global...