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...quota before the party and stick with it. You can make a deal with your children, for example, that they can take a piece of pie or some ice cream from the dessert table, but not both. Timing sugar intake is also important. Blood-sugar levels tend to drop in the late afternoon, so an after-school treat won't cause glucose levels to spike as sharply as one eaten before bedtime, and the calories it contains are more likely to be burned off right away. The best way to keep weight off, of course, is to use the calories...
...this band has clearly come a long way since the guttural growling of their 1986 Anal by Anal 7”. The song begins to build towards its first peak precisely at the song’s halfway point, where all the instruments and background sounds begin to drop away, culminating in a brief standstill, which immediately starts back up again with a calmer and more straightforwardly-jazzy piano and vocal improvisation. The insane wall of percussion resumes again, and the track winds down with a xylophone section and piano duel, finally ending with two strikingly graceful minutes...
...hearing yesterday, a Brighton District Court judge dismissed the charges against Decker concerning the alleged assault of Arthur W. Mckenzie at HBS during the Harvard-Yale festivities. Mckenzie agreed to drop the charges as long as Decker apologized for the incident...
...haven’t faced any difficulty [winning contracts] though because everyone is on the same playing level,” he added. Katz adds that a “dramatic” drop in employee turnover—a result of higher wages and better benefits—is lowering Harvard’s operational costs. “Turnover costs are a major cost in running a corporation,” he says...
...Square, especially those of the homeless. Our regular encounters with “the Spare Change guy” or “the guy with the dog and the cat” are perhaps better anticipated than between-class run-ins with friends, exes or entrywaymates. Maybe we drop a coin or two in the cup every time we walk by. Sometimes we may pass with only a polite smile and nod, or, if we’re in a really dank mood, we might look down and fiddle aimlessly with some cell phone buttons...