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...that Americans most often sample foreign cultures through their taste buds. After years of experimentation with burritos and Dos Equis beer, they are finally becoming a bit more sophisticated about Hispanic cuisine. The savory snacks of Spain known as tapas, the distinctive bite of cilantro (coriander) in a salad or seafood dish, and the fiery blast of salsa, Mexico's peppery condiment -- are now commonplace ingredients in the menus of non-Hispanic restaurants and, increasingly, in American home cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...cultural patter straight from the melting pot. Often it enters Anglo homes and families through the children, who pick it up at school or at play with their young Hispanic contemporaries. In other cases, it comes from watching TV; many an Anglo child watching Sesame Street has learned uno dos tres almost as quickly as one two three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: Spanglish Spoken Here | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Trenton. She has scrapbooks at home with photos of all the children. "When I get home at night, I just jumps into bed and visualizes what a beautiful day I had! When you get a baby young and you work with it long enough, you can tell his dos and don'ts, you can tell each whimper," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Day Care with a Lot of Caring | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Additionally, the extra memory is helpful for running Switcher, a program that allows several different software packages to run at the same time. A ramdisk can also take advantage of the increased memory. Anyone requiring a color monitor or wanting to run MS-DOS programs will need to shell out the additional dollars...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Peaking at Apple's New Bushel | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

They will use 3 1/2 inch disks and will come with a new operating system that will be much more `closed' than MS-DOS. IBM will also introduce a machine based on Intel's 80386 microprocessor, this machine will be able to operate at more than twice the speed...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Peaking at Apple's New Bushel | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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