Word: cactuses
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Chocolate in your perfectly fried chiles rellenos. Cactus alongside the exquisite guacamole, prepared just seconds before it appears on your table. A dash of raspberry sauce garnishing your dainty vanilla flan...
...housing. But without zoning codes to restrict it, much of that growth has been distressingly haphazard. By the time the Zeigers began looking for a retirement home in the 1990s, what they found was a lot of strip malls, golf clubs and sprawling subdivisions decorated here and there with cactus plants. They were horrified. "We didn't want to move to a place where they are just screwing up the desert again," says Carolyn...
...county suddenly found itself paralyzed by a bird, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, which was listed as an endangered species after a survey found just 12 of them left in the state. The owl, which weighs 2.5 oz. and nests in cavities in saguaro cacti, had established a small population in prime development land northwest of Tucson. After the bird's listing, house building in the area came to a halt...
...public in mid June. Curator Charlotte Day envisages "a contemplative, slower experience that takes time to look at and engage with," and Swallow is already hard at work on two new pieces - including a Medusa-inspired bike helmet filled with writhing snakes - to join his L.A.-completed cactus and skull-in-a-beanbag works. But the centerpiece will be Killing Time, 2003-2004, a still-life table overflowing with the sea creatures of Swallow's Australian childhood in the Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood...
...easing your hangover with some prickly pear fruit extract. Researchers in?where else??New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, of ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood levels of C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation...