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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal middle eastern dish of choice is the "chicken shawarma--the grilled chicken breast sauteed and grilled with Tahini sauce," says Rizkallah...

Author: By Alec Permson, | Title: Ethnic Eats | 3/20/1993 | See Source »

Perry Wong, self professed "owner and the dish washer," says he's been running the popular operation for 33 years, most of it spent greeting customers from his post in the front of the takeout/eat-in joint...

Author: By Alec Permson, | Title: Ethnic Eats | 3/20/1993 | See Source »

When M. Butterfly was reviewed in The New Republic, Robert Brustein had said that there was too much plot, much going on, but that he still preferred an overspiced dish to stale white bread--do you think you tend to too much plot, too much story in this new play...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Politics and The Playwright | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...Americans are willing to dish out fifty dollars to buy a superior academic book--even when it deals with a burning contemporary issue, takes a peak into the Royal family (o.k., so 17th century gossip is old news) and explores mysteries...

Author: By Adi Krause, | Title: The Ideology of Modernity | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

...sort out X and Y carriers by tagging sperm with a fluorescent dye; under ultraviolet light, the X sperm glow brighter. Then the sperm are electrically charged -- positive for male, negative for female -- and a laser beam separates the two. Egg and appropriate sperm are mated in a glass dish, and the resulting embryo is implanted in a cow. The technique is about 90% reliable, which is pretty good odds for farmers to get more beef for the buck. Theoretically, a similar process could be developed for selecting human sex, though that ethical quandary does not appear imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bulls Have It | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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