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...early champion of American food, said, "It doesn't matter if it's regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne is equally correct with his prediction: "I don't think we're going back to plain old pot roast. We're not going back to Jell-O That's ridiculous...
...gently patted my belly and nicely told me to lay off the pizza and sweets because I was getting a bit pudgy,” Mr. Hill says. He directed the canoe to the correct pier, where two bottles of champagne and 600 lit candles were waiting. Once there, he stripped off his sweater and jeans to reveal the source of the pudge—tuxedo underneath...
...long, and so far losing, argument with newspapers that insist on anglicizing Maori words - adding s to mark the plural, for example. Pronunciation is another disputed point. It's said Kiwis have 11 different ways of saying "Maori," from the hackle-raising "Mayo-ree" to the correct "Mow-rri." "New Zealanders have a long way to go in terms of pronunciation," says Piripi. "Really, 200 years of occupation without achieving five simple vowel sounds is not so good." Linguist Bauer notes that Maori has adopted large numbers of English words, from motuka (car) to poti (vote), but "English speakers...
...virulence of the invective isn't surprising given what's at stake. If proved correct, the existence of H. floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be found, itself an event of seismic proportions. Conventional anthropological wisdom holds that animals, in the absence of big predators, shrink to adapt to life on small, closed habitats like Flores, a phenomenon known as island dwarfism. Humans, however, are thought to have evolved linearly, developing bigger bodies and brains. H. floresiensis, relatively modern...
...back of their minds, those researchers always remember that the scientific establishment has a long history of scoffing at big, implausible ideas that ultimately turned out to be correct: the assertion that the Earth orbits the sun, the idea that brain-wasting diseases are caused by misshapen proteins, the proposition that hand washing can prevent doctors from transmitting disease, the claim that continents can drift across the surface of the world--all these and more were scorned at first...