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Despite a prohibition against travelers' deplaning without a visa, Albright breezily suggested aides get off and stretch their legs. As stern-looking border guards in drab green uniforms stood watch, two of Albright's top staff members were dispatched to ask permission politely for all to get off the aircraft. Nyet was the official reply. So Albright, the former professor and Democratic Party player, decided to teach the hard-liners about hardball politics. She marched down the stairs, greeting the surprised guards with a few choice Russian words; they let her pass. She suggested she might dial up old chum...
...first, the grains of rice that Ingo Potrykus sifted through his fingers did not seem at all special, but that was because they were still encased in their dark, crinkly husks. Once those drab coverings were stripped away and the interiors polished to a glossy sheen, Potrykus and his colleagues would behold the seeds' golden secret. At their core, these grains were not pearly white, as ordinary rice is, but a very pale yellow--courtesy of beta-carotene, the nutrient that serves as a building block for vitamin...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
...France they have vins de garage. Here they go by the low-rent-sounding "garage wines." But the name is the only thing about them that's drab. Some of the most coveted wines are made in minute quantities in wineries that are often no bigger than, yep, a garage. While their output may be small, the lengths to which people will go to get the wines are vast. And nowhere has the small cult wine taken off as it has in California...
...back of my closet somewhere is a Kinko's-bound pamphlet entitled "An Unofficial Guide for Harvard Freshmen." No, it wasn't the creation of the drab FDO. Nor was it the product of Harvard Student Agencies, authors of the Unofficial Guide to Harvard...