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...like small talk, small talk, small talk,” complained another girlfriend. Without concentrations, Houses, or summer plans as discussion topics, would Harvard students have anything to talk about? Recently, an acquaintance informed me that the most interesting conversation she had was with a woman taking her tooth X-rays at University Health Services...
...never be anything but a wife serving fish to menfolk.Unfortunately, defying social convention has its price. I was not always invited to sit at the men’s table and share their vodka. Instead, most of the invitations I received were of the teeth-sucking variety—tooth-sucking being the Vietnamese equivalent of a wolf whistle. One particularly juicy chat-up line—“Can I have some watermelon?” referring of course to my unfinished plate of fruit—had me sniggering in the suitor’s face...
...album, but it's dance heavy, and the crowd just wasn't going to dance to stuff they didn't know intimately. The only time everyone got on their feet was for "Lucky Star," a song that predates the birth of Britney Spears, who's already long in the tooth by pop standards...
...Meanwhile, despite reports that Bargewell's report would be delivered weeks ago, it appears that Lt. Gen. Peter Chairelli, the ground commander in Iraq, who ordered up the investigation, is still reviewing Bargewell's detailed report. "He is going over it with a fine tooth comb," says one defense official. "Given the interest in this case, everyone wants the first report to be comprehensive and answer all the possible questions...
Babies and toddlers are also learning early on to indulge their sweet tooth. FITS found that 10% of 4-to-6-month-olds consume desserts, sweets or sweetened beverages daily. By the time they are 2, 60% of toddlers eat some kind of pastry every day. Although added sugar was removed from most jarred baby foods in the mid-1990s, baby-food companies continue to offer dessert lines with flavors such as vanilla custard pudding and peach cobbler, loaded with sugar and starch. Early exposure to intensely sweet foods has long-term consequences, says Amy Lanou, a senior nutrition scientist...