February 2007
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Lollypops, Les Sucettes, and Las Bombas Tamarindos
France Gall in “Les Sucettes” I recently returned from Mexico with a bag of fifty Bomba Tamarindos, a.k.a. delightful tamarind lollypops with chili pepper centers. Disappointingly when I got back to my Internet connection at home and looked up the tamarindos online I found out that the very brand I invested in are on the top of the list for lead contamination. Since then they have sat...
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Is the Ivy League really worth it?
Average cost of an Ivy League undergraduate education = $50,000 per year (including tuition, books, room and board) Four years at an Ivy university = $200,000 For the same price you could buy…. = 800,000 gumballs. If you eat three gumballs a day, that is one for each meal, you would have 730 years of bubbilicious fun. Now assuming you only live to about 80 — you are after all surviving on...