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...Whatever happens, Sea the Stars' success has brought out the best in sport. Racehorses aren't rewarded for their efforts with sneaker contracts and salary hikes. In an age of gazillionaire baseball players and soccer stars, a competitor that races for nothing other than a win lifts the image of sport and the spirit of fans. It's what made Seabiscuit so popular during the Depression - and what makes Sea the Stars so illustrious...
...introduced to combat the recession. Everyone agrees the cure for excess capacity is increasing demand, whether it is generated through a fundamentally strengthening economy or through artificial means like "Cash for Clunkers" measures. Turn off the tap too quickly before normal demand recovers, and the downturn could persist. "The best way of reducing excess capacity is by not prematurely unwinding stimulus spending," Lin of the World Bank told TIME...
...their right mind would disagree that at Harvard, Sunday is the best day of the week not because of God or church or anything like that but because of HUDS's "bread day" extravaganza in each dining hall for dinner. But while bread day has been given its due amount of praise, perhaps the most delicious part of the whole enterprise (a subtle little substance called Honey Butter--that's right, capitalize it!) often goes without mention...
...right, you're in college), Honey Butter is only about one percent of your daily suggested intake! But who eats–or, rather, who has enough self-restraint merely to eat–just one tiny quarter of an ounce of this ambrosial accoutrement for some of the best warm (if not freshly baked) bread you can find at Harvard, even in the culinary Siberia that is Annenberg Hall...
...that brings FlyBy to disclose the best thing about Honey Butter: it has no trans fat whatsoever, and it's still butter, and it's still delicious. Heck, you might even be able to find it in New York City someday with a track record like that. According to the entry on the HUDS website on Honey Butter, this spiritually satisfying melange of "white clover honey" and "unsalted butter" (which, as anyone who watches the Barefoot Contessa or, God forbid, Paula Deen, knows, ain't the best for you) contains absolutely zero percent of the feared and banned artery clogger...