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...half of this amazing off-Broadway pair is balding and a whiz with a microphone, able to replicate everything from bacon frying to a dog exploding. His long-haired, supple-limbed partner silently acts all this out in perfect synch. Just when you think you've seen the best sound-effects guy and the best mime ever teamed onstage, they switch roles. Fast, inventive, cheerfully crude and wittily self-aware (parodies of Star Wars and Marcel Marceau too), Thwak might be classified as performance art, but we call it pure theater and pure...
...nectars. Increase the sensory qualities of a dish by adding chili peppers, horseradish, mustard, ginger or cinnamon. Sprinkle chopped fresh herbs on a dish immediately before serving or, better yet, put them on the table so diners can season their own food. Add garnishes of high-flavor foods like bacon or ham bits, sun-dried tomatoes or orange slices. Think about what you're eating--people can often fill in the lost sensory information from memory. Chew thoroughly to enable more molecules to react with receptor sites in the mouth and nose. Switch from food to food, taking a bite...
...keep the pressure on Milosevic and his people. Even after the hit on the Chinese embassy, Pentagon officials insisted they had no intention of slowing the pace of the raids. "NATO is determined to continue this campaign--and to intensify this campaign," said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon...
...stroke, according to a study published in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. That doesn't mean you should chow down endless servings of omelet, quiche and souffle, however. For one thing, many Americans like their eggs fried in butter or served with bacon, both of which contain lots of saturated fat, the ingredient that does the most to clog your arteries. For another, the study shows that eating a lot of eggs may be unhealthy for folks with diabetes, although that's a preliminary finding that still has to be confirmed...
...cholesterol when they eat eggs.) Researchers from Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston went a step further in the study released last week and looked at actual egg consumption among 120,000 nurses and other health professionals with normal cholesterol levels. After eliminating the "bacon effect," the researchers found no link between eggs and heart disease or stroke. The major exception: folks with diabetes, who are already at greater risk for both conditions...