There might be some technical differences that a cook could tell us about, but from the consumer's point of view, the difference seems to be that a cupcake really is like a miniature cake: light in weight, sweet, and often covered with icing and

If a storm of controversy could make an artistic work an empty vessel, then we would lose a lot of our culture to emptiness. Almost everything significant was controversial when first released; think of the scandal of those DH Lawrence novels that

The problem with HIV is that it really IS that frightening. But in the gay community people found that in order not to just have people's minds go numb and have them all go into avoidance behaviour because they couldn't deal with the whole thing,

There are two theories of Rx origin at http://www.endomail.com/articles/ad13rx.html

Prepositions like 'for' and 'of' always have a painful number of specific situations in which they are conventionally used, and general rules are not much help. 'For' has a sense of "to the benefit of" or "towards the purpose of," where as "of"

I am a Christian who feels a sense of brother(/sister-)hood with Islamic people. Since the surah Baqara was quoted a couple of messages back, let me copy in a verse from it that's a good basis for good relations among the monotheistic religions,

The item you are quoting is not a sentence, but rather a string of three sentences. Whether something like a sign is rendered in quotes or not is a matter of style, and some style manuals could be checked. It is not an absolutely fixed matter

No, that sounds quite adequate. But the phrase "report this sentence" is of uncertain meaning. Do you mean "say the same thing?"

No. You could say, "I need an empty house of my own," though then it would seem you specifically wanted a house that would remain empty, or you could say, "I want an empty house to make my own." Or various other permutations. Depends what

Men usually have wallets, which are flat and fit in the pocket. Women may have them too, but if so they are sometimes kept in the purse, which has a handstrap or a shoulder strap. In other countries men may carry a little bag of money which could