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...figure out why," says Blumenthal. With no cooking mentors to rely on, he cold-called Oxford University molecular-gastronomy pioneer Nicholas Kurti, only to learn that Kurti had died in 1998. So Blumenthal got the list of participants at Kurti's annual food-science conference and rang Peter Barham, a physicist at the University of Bristol. "The answer is that green beans don't need salted water," says Barham. "Heston had figured this out, but he didn't have the confidence he has now. Having a scientist tell him made...
...Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a "showdown" with the insurgency ravaging the country, it will need to put serious muscle behind the bluster. That's where General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, the recently named boss of the newly formed Iraqi Intelligence Service, comes in. As Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says of him, "Terrorism is fought best with intelligence...
...Molly Barham...
Last year a group of angry defectors demanded an investigation into Barham's operations. The California department of consumer affairs looked into the accusation that psychodrama sessions were taking place without a trained therapist in attendance. The department cleared the Barhams: ordained ministers of Barham's church can legally supervise such sessions under California law. This spring the San Diego district attorney's office investigated a report that a ten-year-old girl had been molested by her entity, but no charges have been brought because of lack of evidence...
...bler-Ross's faith in Barham is unshaken. A friend, Deanna Edwards, says she attended two darkroom sessions in hopes of changing the psychiatrist's mind about Barham. In both sessions, her entity-guide "Pico" tried to solicit sex. Edwards says she ripped masking tape from a light switch and flipped on the lights, revealing Jay Barham wearing only a turban. "I never heard such screaming," says Edwards, who hastens to explain that it was not the sight of Barham that caused the alarm; the other participants believed that light destroyed an entity. Edwards was sure the demonstration...