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...look elsewhere for produce. According to Ted Mayer, HUDS’ Executive Director, “When we planned the menu back in the summer, we accommodated for this annual rise in produce prices”—by limiting fresh fruit options and vegetables like spinach, brussel sprouts and summer squash, for example—“as per usual.” However, unexpected food price increases have made this year’s annual slump particularly bleak. According to Martin Breslin, Director for Culinary Operations, the price of chicken increased 11 percent, flour 18 percent...
Simon Rich ’06-’07 knows a great recipe for Brussel sprouts, loves Roald Dahl, and hates dogs. He is also modest.“I just sit down every day and just write a ton of stuff,” he says. “Most of it’s terrible. I don’t think I’m very funny in person.”Jon Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand...
Radical reversals become literal with the other kind of book that Shiga produces: Choose Your Own Adventure. The first of these, 2001's "The Last Supper," had the user unfold a sheet in different directions depending on what choices he wanted to make, starting with whether to eat a brussel sprout or not. The most remarkable of these books, "Meanwhile...," is a photocopied, hand-constructed wonder. Rather than the usual left to right and top to bottom layout, the panels are connected by a maze of tubes. At some point these tubes lead off the edge of the page...
...first day of school last year, Miss Voss came on the p.a. with shocking news. Three Webster teens had died during the summer. Incoming junior Katy Orf, her classmates later learned, had perished in a head-on collision in Pennsylvania. A week later, Erica Brussel, whose brother was a junior, died similarly on route 55. And then on Aug. 3, junior Joe Grosberg was found in the Mississippi River. Joe had been well known as his class's biggest flirt...
...lasts for only a short time. Even the real-life deaths in the past two years of four students--one of whom, Erica Brussel, was killed by a drunk driver--haven't stopped students from putting themselves at risk. "Sometimes it makes more sense when you're really drunk to get into a car with someone who isn't as drunk," says a sophomore. After a party last Saturday night, that's exactly what she did. "I think a lot of times people are more concerned with having fun than their safety," she says...