Word: crusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bills began life worlds apart. Clinton's childhood in small-town, 1940s Arkansas was shaped by a mother who worked as a nurse and played at the racetrack, and an alcoholic stepfather. Gates, by contrast, was born into the Seattle upper crust, his father a lawyer and his mother president of the Junior League. Gates was a skinny prep school kid who spent all his free time in the computer lab--a nerd before the term was invented, a former teacher once said. Clinton, even in his schoolboy days, was the smooth saxophone player who used his music to meet...
...pods are designed to shatter on impact, releasing a pair of 7-in. probes. Slamming into the surface, the probes are supposed to drive themselves 4 ft. into the Martian crust. Once buried, they will deploy tiny drills and begin sampling the chemical makeup of the soil around them. Scientists believe that chemistry could be remarkably rich. "The surface of Mars has been pretty well sterilized by ultraviolet radiation," says Sam Thurman, the mission's flight-operations manager. The subsurface has been spared that scrubbing...
...Suspicion (1941). Cary Grant is the upper crust?s most eligible gold-digger ? and maybe a murderer to boot. The Hitchcock classic throws Joan Fontaine into Cary?s arms and watches the love turn to fear. If you don?t like the ending, blame the studios for being overly protective of Grant?s image...
...more variety, the Harvest Ginger Bread is dense, not overly sweet and peppered with chunks of caramelized ginger. It is normally served with rice pudding ice cream (although quite tasty topped with the aforementioned pumpkin ice cream) and caramelized pear cranberry compote. A traditional yet exceptional thin-crust Warm Apple Tart ($8) is served warm enough to melt the homemade ice cream alongside into a slowly expanding pool of vanilla sauce. Harvest's decisive flavors truly come into their own in the dessert arena...
...underdogs the world over; in New York City. Amory chronicled his most famous rescue--of his pet cat Polar Bear--in The Cat Who Came for Christmas. But he was also well versed in the habits of two-legged creatures, penning a sardonic series on society's upper crust...