Word: whetted
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...There's no beating the system at Abercrombie. Day after day, a manager puts the same CD on repeat and cranks it to a set ear-blasting store volume. Nationwide, Abercrombie plays pumping bass to whet customers' appetites for flared khakis. "After a while you don't notice [the volume]," says MIT senior Hans Yang, an employee at the Harvard Square branch. "But the music is supposed to make us seem like we are all having fun," he adds, swiveling his head back and forth to look for shoplifters. Yang does not seem to be having much fun, however...
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...ivory, you create an incentive for poachers." During the '80s, Africa lost half of its elephant population to poachers supplying ivory traders in Asia. The ivory market has been effectively starved by the 1989 U.N. ban -- but 60 tons of tusks may be just the aperitif needed to whet its appetite...
...Dining Services' hearty meal of pork picatta, mushroom chicken and lo mein doesn't fill you up, try Food Glorious Food. Advertised as a cabaret event that will "whet your curiosity (and appetite)," The Will and Lil Show, with Joe Della Penna on piano, is serving up some classic culinary tunes. And the best part is you won't gain weight. 8 p.m., Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street...
...than he bargained for after leaking an hour of "selected extracts" Friday from wiretapped recordings of Webster Hubbell speaking to wife Suzy from his prison cell back in 1996. Such quotes from the Clinton pal as "I will not raise those allegations that might open it up to Hillary" whet conservative appetites and piqued the media's interest. As for the other 149 hours, Burton said they were under wraps "to exclude anything that might touch on personal or private affairs." Now it appears those spousal sweet nothings included Hubbell's admission that his former law partner Hillary "just...