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If the popularity of the Facebook group “Cage Free Eggs at Harvard”— which boasted 244 members as of yesterday evening—is any indication, Harvard students care about the origin of their eggs. Two weeks ago, AnnaLise S. Hoopes, a first...
How the homey in-store experience translates to a drive-through is another question. Executives try to explain, but the disconnect is so obvious that the Starbucks drive-through is lately being reinvented. Some changes boost efficiency (an order-confirmation screen reduces errors), but plenty of the redesign is aesthetic...
From its title, which translates to “beautiful song,” and its cover, which features elegantly dressed party goers, it is nearly impossible to guess that Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” is a novel about terrorism. But perhaps that?...
By following these three students as they experienced the college application process, FM hoped to get a sense of how the theoretical debate about what admissions should be translates into the daily life of Early Action’s last generation.
Nobody looks forward to acolonoscopy, but there's still no better way to detect and prevent colon cancer. There may, however, be a less intrusive alternative to the dreaded test. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City tested a newly improved version of a noninvasive...