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Those not yet ready for so momentous an adventure could fill up on bright red, chili-fired Portuguese linguica sausage, oyster shooters (each a single- shelled oyster in a shot glass to be knocked back with a dash of lemon juice or cocktail sauce), assorted meat satays and hot dogs, pickled garlic, egg rolls, cookies, ice cream and chocolate-dipped strawberries, all washed down with soft drinks, beer or wine margaritas...
...touching eagerness of converts leaves some veterans bemused. Gardening, they will tell you, is a vocation, not a gift, and requires work and experience to master and love. "I see these specimen trees coming down the highway from the nursery wrapped like Egyptian mummies," says Long Island Painter Robert Dash, "and I think, 'God, the gardening world has got out of hand...
...Krantz sure knows how to dash a childhood dream. He is editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
...sprints, Boston College's Rob Davis won the 100-meter dash in 10.88 seconds, and Thorb Towles won the 200-meter dash for Boston University with a time of 21.29 seconds. In the 400-meter dash. Fitchburg State's Brian Crossman took first with a time of 47.13 seconds...
...barnstorming dash, Chirac will seek to appeal to both the center- right and Le Pen voters. The Premier flatly ruled out any deals with the National Front, but he said he would address "the worries" of extreme-right voters. Chirac mentioned "all those who want security and to be assured that delinquency, criminality and terrorism will be fought with the necessary firmness; that our national identity will be preserved; that clandestine immigration will be fought...