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Mayer said that before HUDS can make any changes, it needs to clarify what a fourth meal will entail. Most students seem to want snack foods, he said...
Although I probably wouldn't want to watch a video about it, day-to-day weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...
Weather is like the background music to life. You can just ignore it if you want, but you can also let it create, match or contrast with your mood, as filmmakers and Romantic poets have been quick to discover (picture Gene Kelly singing in the rain, and emotional British men wandering the stormy countryside). Weather is mood music that everybody hears, and this commonality is both its strength and its downfall. As a topic that is available to everyone, we tend to bring it up when there is absolutely no other common ground. On the other hand, when...
...kind you know you're going to miss. The perfect fall day, smelling like leaves and demanding a sweater, never fails to do it for me, and I'll take the first warm breezy days of spring over a thousand days of southern California sunshine. Actually, I don't want a thousand days of any weather, which is what's particularly great about fall and spring. There are places where it's summer all the time, and places where it's winter all the time, but there's nowhere in the whole world where fall or spring is there...
...quality of for-profit medicine is lower than that of non-profit medicine," Woolhandler said. "In HMOs, there are incentives for cutting back care. There is a lot of dissatisfaction driven by the fact that HMOs don't want to enroll sick people...