Word: butter
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...signs are perfectly clear: I should be spending every free moment nestled into the mottled, slightly sticky seats at my local movie theater, enjoying the air conditioning, nibbling on faux-butter-laced popcorn, slurping a giant-size soda, and desperately trying to pick Jujubes out of my teeth...
...liner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its Parliament 11. Head of Haiti? 16. Affirmative action? 19. Sensation of the 1958 World Cup 21. New Rochelle, N.Y., college 22. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her 24. It may be blown 25. Grp. wanting less arsenic in H2O 26. New guns 'n' butter man in Times Square 28. To __ (perfectly) 30. Post-O.R. destination 31. Sweater letters 33. It's rethinking its use of inmates as telemarketers 37. Preakness winner Red __ 39. Further shorten, in a way 41. Play in which the word robot was coined 42. Nuclear gps.? 43. 10-Down...
...mate brought over Darwin's buttercreams one afternoon. We broke off tiny pieces together, licked around the edges of the edges to scoop up the filling with the points of our tongues. The doughy chocolate cookies (almost very thin brownies) sandwich four major types of buttercream: raspberry, mocha, peanut butter and mint. Thick as icing, this cookie filling makes Oreo cream taste like Olestra. Since then, I've learned that the cookies come chilled but are better a little warm. They last longer that way; you can break off smaller bits...
...build its Son of Star Wars missile defense system in Alaska. But nobody really expected that. There's little incentive for Putin to sign off on a deal that could throw his country into a new arms race at a time when Russia definitely needs more butter and fewer guns. And time is on the Russian side - Clinton would like to get a big foreign policy success through before he leaves office, while Putin can afford to wait to negotiate with the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania...
...sought a second opinion from Chris Komisarjevsky, who claims to enjoy traveling with his six children, ages 6 to 12. A stint as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam prepared him for this challenge: "You learn to keep your cool." But Komisarjevsky, co-author with his wife Reina of Peanut Butter and Jelly Management (Amacom; $17), agreed with Gump. Says Chris: "Remember it's a vacation for the kids. That's different from a vacation for adults without children--which, of course, you should also take." That I knew already...