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...area of flavor perception. "Eating isn't just taste, it's all the senses," he says. "Blindfold knowledgeable wine drinkers, and a majority can't say if they're drinking red or white, so sight matters. Sound--the crunch of a carrot--affects your expectations. What happens if you bite into a banana and hear the sound of a carrot?" he asks. If Blumenthal prepared the banana, it would probably be out of this world...
...songs like “Waterslide,” with the drums hitting hard on the one, or “The Boat Room,” with its fuzzed out bass effect, where the sound has some bite to it. By not being so goddamned low-key all the time, Pierce creates a balance on these tracks that downplays the soothing effects of the rolling xylophone ambience and techno-glitches. He finally provides a rock solid foundation for himself to sing/float over...
...might hold important clues for future research. Essex suspects that in the past 20 to 40 years, the virus spread from monkeys to man. Other viruses have made this leap--notably jungle yellow fever virus--and, he notes, the greens often live in close association with people and frequently bite them. How the disease might have traveled from Africa to the U.S. and Haiti is anybody's guess. One "intriguing" clue, says Dr. Peter Piot of the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, is that several thousand Haitians lived in Kinshasa, Zare, from the early 1960s...
...refused to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to AIDS patients and often to gay men in general. In New York City and Los Angeles County, fire departments are providing special mouthpieces and other equipment to permit rescue without oral contact. New York State's department of corrections is providing bite-proof, scratch-proof suits to officers guarding infected inmates...
...reach a zero annual deficit by 1991, the original version of Gramm-Rudman called for severe spending cuts in many social programs and in at least a chunk of the Pentagon budget. House Democrats have countered with a bill that could take a bigger bite out of the military while protecting food stamps, Social Security and veterans' benefits...