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- Clinton and Trump Go Head-to-Head Tonight September 26, 2016Tonight’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is expected to draw a Super Bowl–sized TV audience of more than 100 million viewers. With recent polls showing the contest close to a dead heat, many pundits argue that tonight could be a make-or-break moment for the candidates. Sponsored by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Commission […]
- Office Artifacts: William McKeen September 26, 2016Shortly after William McKeen published his first biography of the famous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson: A Critical Biography, he received a 17-page fax from his subject, who called him a “shit-eating freak” and warned him that “a bushy-haired stranger in a dimly-lit parking lot” might blind him. “I could recognize his […]
- Do Jello Shots Lead to Bingeing by Underage Drinkers? September 26, 2016An internet search for “jello shots” brings up thousands of recipes for the alcohol-infused gelatin that has become a staple of college life. American singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer claims to have invented the jello shot in the 1950s to circumvent restrictions on alcoholic beverages at the Army base where he was stationed. But a recipe for […]
- Farm to Table: A Family Legacy September 26, 2016For passionate, compulsively entrepreneurial farmer, chef, and MET part-time instructor Chris Fischer, “farm to table” is neither a movement nor an urban conceit: it’s all he’s ever known. His family has run a farm on Martha’s Vineyard since 1961, and as chef of a new Edgartown restaurant he puts it into practice.
- Six Junior Faculty Receive Career Development Awards September 23, 2016Jerry Chen received quite a present just three months after arriving at BU. Chen, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology, is the winner of this year’s Stuart and Elizabeth Pratt Career Development Professorship, which highlights excellence within CAS. A neuroscientist who uses the sensory input from the whiskers of mice to […]
