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...holds at his house three times annually. These feature the infamous ‘Marvinburgers,’ a burger so thick that it’s charred on the outside and rare on the inside, and, during the ‘Christmascues’ of yore, Marvin’s festive eggnog...
...Prius nearly doubled, as they did again from 2006 to 2007. Green construction, unknown just 10 years earlier, had by 2007 blossomed into a $12 billion industry. Shoppers everywhere have started toting around little reusable sacks as an eco-friendly alternative to the disposable paper and plastic bags of yore...
...saga of Burgerman over—or is it just beginning? This past Monday, Samuel B. Novey ’11, the Burgerman of legends yore, ran the Boston marathon in a giant burger suit...
...Albany, posits another upside to sticking with the breast: a mother's decision not to breast-feed may unwittingly mimic child loss, evolutionarily speaking. Given that bottle-feeding technology did not exist for the last 99.9% of human evolutionary history, Gallup reasons, the likeliest reason a mother of yore would not have breast-fed is the death or loss of the child. He suggests that the consequences for the bottle-feeding modern-day mother could include an increased risk of postpartum depression and difficulty producing milk...
...have faulted me for using all these terrible old clichés, but that was actually the project - to take all the tropes of the 19th century English novel and try to reanimate them. The book is definitely supposed to comment and hopefully expand on London ghost stories of yore...