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...Then, bring the liquid to a boil, adding hops gradually. Hops are the female flower cones of the hop plant that give beer its bitter flavor...
...With the race as tight as it is, Hagan's chances in the once reliably red state may boil down to voter education thanks to a quirk of state political history. In the '80s, the Democratic controlled legislature got tired of losing down ballot races thanks to weak presidential candidates and separated the ballots. On this year's ballot, therefore, voters have to vote twice-once for president and once for the Democrats from the state - rather than being able to make one single choice for the entire slate of Democratic candidates...
Well-funded liberal interest groups will compete to rush their pet causes to the top of this agenda, while conservative groups will use these issues to rebuild their battered bases. Both presidential candidates have promised to lance the boil of partisan demagoguery in Washington, but for many of these interest groups, comity is bad for business. The fracturing of the media into a thousand voices - many of them strident - will further complicate the new President's efforts to deliver on the promise of a more civil way of doing the nation's business...
...high school girl who usually flips straight to the Arts section of TIME, but I read Justin Fox's Q&A about the bailout, and I think it was really smart to boil it down that way [Oct. 13]. Even I understood most of it. Still, for me, the obese elephant in the room is the question of where all the money went in the first place! Sara Makaretz, YARMOUTH, MAINE...
...mused about them as living beings in a piece that, after some entertaining diversions through marine biology and colonial history, asks, "a question that's all but unavoidable at the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, and may arise in kitchens across the U.S.: Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure...