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...recently companies began unleashing a barrage of unfamiliar products packed with extreme amounts of caffeine. The trend started with super-caffeinated energy drinks in the '90s, but more recently scientists and marketers have created caffeinated foods and even personal-hygiene products. In the past five years, according to the market research giant Mintel, firms have launched at least 126 caffeinated food products for sale in the U.S. Twenty-nine such products have been introduced this year alone. The offerings include things like Morning Spark oatmeal, NRG potato chips and - my favorite, if only for the brazen attempt to draw kids...
Both the heavyweight and lightweight men’s varsity crew teams open this season in an unfamiliar position as underdogs. In years past, both teams have ruled the EARC and national stage—the heavyweights have 25 Eastern Sprints titles, the lightweights 24.But when the Harvard crews take to the water this year, they will be looking for redemption after a 2008 season that lacked their usual displays of dominance. The heavyweight varsity eight failed to make the Grand Final of the Sprints for the first time in 44 years. Likewise, the lightweights also fell short?...
...role race is playing. No one can say for certain what is in people's hearts. But what we found is a very American answer: people are pragmatic and seem willing to evaluate the candidates on the merits of their character and ideas. And, yes, Obama is still unfamiliar to plenty of voters--but what we also discovered is that anxieties about the economy are trumping anxieties that some people have about Barack Obama...
...concerned, anyone not moved by a portmanteau that inventive clearly has no soul. Thus, late on a Friday night, I found myself seated among other eager moviegoers, most of them male, awaiting the start of a movie that would open my eyes to an unfamiliar art form.“Nuns! Now!” yelled an impatient audience member from the balcony, and the series host ended his lengthy introduction and began this film of witchcraft, torture, and rampant sexual urges in 17th-century England. In lieu of a plot summary, which would—trust me?...
...This is familiar territory for Democrats. The question was framed many years ago by Senator Ted Kennedy, who must have been smiling up on Cape Cod. "Health care should be a right, not a privilege," Kennedy would say, so often that it became a cliché. But it was unfamiliar turf for John McCain, who responded by wandering through his answer - halfheartedly, it seemed - saying it would be his responsibility as President to provide affordable health care to those who needed...