Word: tonic
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...wants a gin and tonic...
...Vietnamese schools and taught some 100,000 children about the country's wildlife. It has trained rangers in 30 national parks to set up school programs on local endangered species. Vietnamese pop star My Linh appeared in a 2004 ENV television commercial urging people not to consume bear-bile tonic, which is extracted from the stomachs of trapped bears using steel catheters. This year, ENV set up a national wildlife-trafficking hotline for people to report poaching and restaurants serving endangered species. The staff has expanded to 22. "At the moment, I'm the oldest person in the organization," laughs...
...recipe for Classic Coke wasn't stolen. Coke officials deny the drug was ever an ingredient. But experts, including a former U.S. drug czar, have long said the coca plant--cocaine's source--once flavored Coke, which might explain why it was sold early on as a "brain tonic." Maybe the thieves should have had a drink...
...promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales of the Punjab...
...course, pre-assignment is no magical tonic that will cure all undergraduate life woes. For one thing, disparities in the distance between the Yard and individual Houses would complicate the integration of freshmen into farther a field Houses, like Mather and the Quad. But such drawbacks could be easily mitigated by minor details in a pre-assignment policy. For example, peer advisers would be given access to Annenberg, and would be expected to have meals and interactions with their advisees in the Yard. And when it comes to special House events, the draw of an excellent speaker or of Stein...