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Besides the incredible guacamole hand-made in a stone mortar right on the table, the appetizers (entreplatos) range from the crowd-pleasing nachos to cheese, potato and chicken-filled taquitos. The Texan ordered some cheese relleno, which showed up in a narrow casserole dish and was consumed in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, the exquisite sangria was poured around and downed with grunts and slurps by the boorish and thirsty crowd. This was actually a sign of the sangria’s quality, rather than general disregard of manners. A lone editor tasted an extra sour margarita with lots...
...father Ray and his uncle Tom have broadcast automotive wisdom to a cadre of devoted fans and desperate motorists on their Peabody Award winning show “Car Talk.” The show asks callers to phone in with their car problems and the omniscient Magliozzi brothers dish out their advice. Miles away from the troubled car, Ray and Tom often have little to go on besides noises made by bewildered callers trying to replicate their car’s rattle...
...agency could halt a stem-cell procedure if it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus. The news sparked renewed calls for the President to loosen his policy and allow further harvesting from embryos, this time without using animal tissue in the Petri dish. Senator John Kerry warns that if federal dollars aren't made available for new cell lines, Congress may yet wrest the policy from the White House. Just when you thought the fight was over...
...science is intact," says Devitt, "and the research integrity of these cells lines is not affected. It?s just a part of the science that?s going on in a petri dish. These stem cell lines are experimental. The hope is they will advance knowledge to a point that in the long term, say, ten years, we might be able to start looking at treatments or cures...
...speech at a neighbor's house ("I don't have television," Thomson says. "I just watch DVDs on my computer"), he blithely went off hang-gliding in the hills near Madison. Good thing. As the lab Merlin who was first to create the magical cells in a Petri dish, Thomson knew his telephone would be jangling after the President's pronouncement. "I thought it better to clear my head before facing the media storm," he says, leaving calls unanswered...