Word: chatteringly
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...spoonful of frozen Dijon mustard powder that, as one of the lab-coat-donned waiters puts it, "really opens up your taste buds." Corkscrew flatware stuffed with lavender and bruleed garlic enhances the olfactory experience of eating scallops and daikon radish in a Brazil-nut puree. Dining chatter revolves around how they are going to serve, let alone create, dishes like "12-year Gouda ice cream with balsamic vinegar." Moto, a whiplash blend of science and art, will captivate some and annoy others. Most dishes triumph (especially the fish courses), while some--well, maybe we're not quite ready...
...doesn't listen, that wants to decentralize France but is itself centralized. "We can't win if the party's organized from the top down," he says. "That's why the referendum on the constitution is key: you can't make Europe unless the people want it." Such chatter has contributed to a certain fin de règne feeling in Paris, even though Chirac has another three years in office. But reports of Chirac's political demise would be premature. Figures released last week show the French economy grew faster in the first quarter than it has since early...
...resistance it faced. "Yes, we're impatient," conceded one Western diplomat in Islamabad. "But we're operating against the unknown deadline of a major terrorist attack in the U.S. That's what drives us." Another Islamabad-based diplomat claimed that lately Western intelligence was picking up "lots of chatter" from its electronic eavesdropping and informants that "something very nasty was being planned out of Pakistan...
...ease with which so many small-time Greek bombers are able to set off their blasts in Athens makes security experts worry that big-time bombers like al-Qaeda might be able to do the same. Intelligence officials say they have not as yet picked up worrisome chatter, but a growing number of experts involved in Olympic preparations expect some kind of attempted attack during the Games. Before the Madrid bombings on March 11, when "every attempt by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Europe had been foiled," says Israel's Karmon, experts were more optimistic. Now, he says, "there...
...than itself. "Al-Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature of the plotters' network enabled it to operate under the noses of intelligence and police forces...