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...wine-country stop that beguiles many people is the relaxed, pleasantly bucolic New Boonville Restaurant, about 2?? hours northwest of San Francisco. The restaurant appeals both to stylish celebrities like Angela Lansbury and casually dressed locals. Charlene and Vernon Rollins, the husband and wife who run this restaurant, grow most of their own produce in a sprawling garden on their grounds. It is now a shimmer of color with orange peppers, green to red tomatoes, emerald zucchini and rose-gold peaches. The Rollinses raise much of their own poultry and serve most meats and fish simply grilled. Their delectable goat...
Silberman argues that the anti-Semitism in the U.S. is merely residual. He examines the past and present opportunities in business, law, academe, journalism, politics and art. Upshot: today's American Jew is about 2?? times as likely to wind up in Who's Who as the population at large...
...results have been phenomenal. Freed to prosper by hard work, Chinese farmers have increased food production around 8% in each year since 1978, about 2?? times the rate in the preceding 26 years. Variety has increased along with quantity; besides rice and wheat, the Chinese are growing and eating more poultry and pork (China has the world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough...
Like War of the Worlds, Orson Welles' famous 1938 radio ruse that convinced thousands of Americans that Martians had invaded New Jersey, the 2??-hour Finnish program was out-and-out fiction, adapted from U.S. Playwright Jan Hartman's prizewinning play The Next War. Despite several on-air warnings, the Finnish broadcast sparked hours of panic, during which emergency telephone lines were jammed. "I really thought war had come," said Helsinki Engineer Matti Korponen. Mirjam Polkunen, head of theatrical broadcasting for Radio Finland, promised no such "documentaries" would ever again be aired. Said she: "We didn't mean to scare...
...popularity of it. Because it will sell. That's why I chose westerns originally. In the '50s, you could sell a western almost anywhere. The better pulp magazines--Dime Western, Zane Grey's Western, Ten-Story Western--paid 2?? a word, which, for a 5,000-word story, was 100 bucks. In the '50s, that wasn't too bad, and anyway, I had a day job at the time writing Chevrolet ads. I would get up in the morning at 5 and write fiction for two hours. I had a rule that I had to start writing before...