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MEXICO. The Colorado has long been a prickly subject between the U.S. and its neighbor, and at the moment tempers south of the border are steaming again. The current flash point is Southern California's plan to line with concrete the All-American Canal, which carries water to the Imperial Valley, to save 106,000 acre-feet that seep uselessly into the ground beneath the canal each year. On the one hand, this is an ambitious project in water conservation; on the other, Mexican officials say the loss of seepage will deplete the underground water supply around Mexicali...
...largely on Garrison's 1988 book, On the Trail of the Assassins. Garrison is considered somewhere near the far-out fringe of conspiracy theorists, but Stone appears to have bought his version virtually wholesale. One need look no further than the actor who will play Garrison: Hollywood's reigning all-American hero Kevin Costner...
...would be hard to find a more all-American story than Lee's delightful China Boy, a semiautobiographical novel based on the author's childhood. Kai Ting, the title character, is the pampered youngest child and only son of a % once wealthy family that fled China following the Communist takeover and settled in a poor -- and predominantly black -- neighborhood in San Francisco. When Kai's mother dies, his father brings home a white wife. She institutes a harsh Americanization campaign that bans all Chinese food, language and customs from the house and abandons her stepson to regular beatings...
...outset of The Kitchen God's Wife (Putnam; 415 pages; $22.95), one's apprehensions begin to gather like avenging furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page...
Cherish the memory. The all-American egg breakfast has become as strong a social taboo as smoking a fat stogie in a crowded elevator. Cholesterol fears initially scrambled the egg industry, but the real threat is the current panic over salmonella. This toxic raw-egg bacteria caused more than 2,000 cases of food poisoning in the U.S. last year. As Gourmet magazine declared, "Dishes made with raw or undercooked eggs -- Caesar salad and eggs Benedict -- are in danger of becoming extinct...