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...from the "Get the Guests" scene in Albee's Virginia Woolf, called "Affairs of the Heart." Each player must say "I love you" over the telephone to the person he has most dearly loved in his life. All drunk by now, the partygoers guzzle this witch's brew of truth, and the party thrower is reduced to agonized hysterics...
...their coffee. They consume 20 million cups a day, even though they now have to gulp it on the run. The man who has done the most to exploit this yearning is Carlo Ernesto Valente, 54, whose Faema espresso-coffee machines can spill out a fresh cup of potent brew in as little as ten seconds...
...time-consuming Italian process. Whole coffee beans are electrically ground into a fine powder. Just enough for one cup is dropped into the filter of the machine where it is packed tight under pressure. Then boiling water is pumped downward through the grounds-and out flows the potent black brew...
...round of tradition al tea drinking. Her first pass showed a clear Western influence as she knocked back the whole cup in one gulp, but she was soon taking it down in the prescribed three sips. "It's fabulous," said Sylvia of the green Japanese brew. "It looked like pea soup but tasted like-well, like exotic bouillon...
...with Impurities. Taking natural DNA from a simple virus called Phi X 174 (which consists only of a DNA molecule surrounded by a protein sheath), they added it to the brew as a template, or blueprint, to guide the assembly of the synthetic molecule. Under the influence of the DNA polymerase enzyme, the four basic nucleotides aligned themselves in codelike combinations alongside the natural DNA molecule. Eventually they formed a strand consisting of about 6,000 nucleotide units that was a mirror image of the corresponding strand in the natural molecule. Then, using their mirror-image molecule as a template...