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...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...
...cooking than the dishes she cooks. The voluptuous voluptuary is the godmother of TV's food babes (Giada De Laurentiis, Top Chef's Lakshmi), but the real appeal of Feasts--and of Lawson's British series, which it mimics--is her unfussy, wry, practical approach to entertaining and quality comfort food. You can believe, or not, that guacamole and chili are the first things this wealthy, cosmopolitan hostess thinks of when she throws a dinner party. Either way, between the luscious camera shots and Lawson's sensual enjoyment of eating, Feasts will leave you wishing for an invite...
...political, economic, and social as well as spiritual life; it understood in an intimate way the biblical call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and challenge powers and principalities. In the history of these struggles, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world...
...fourth of its Ivy League contests, as the Bears decisively swept the Crimson, 3-0 (30-25, 30-26, 30-24).In the first game, the Crimson faltered from the start, falling into a 1-5 deficit. Unable to mount a full recovery, the team struggled to establish its comfort zone, most notably in its passing. “I feel like our team played like a bunch of individuals out on the court today,” junior co-captain Laura Mahon said. “I think it happened from the start and continued through the end. That?...
...well,” Odorczyk said. “She is starting to speak up and people really respect what she has to say. When she talks people listen.” “Since I came to preseason, Coach Walsh has pushed me out of my comfort zone trying to make me into a leader on the team,” Nichols said. “That’s what I have tried to do.” The Bears got on the board first, scoring just five minutes into the second half. Moos, who was heavily...