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...tires. Moreover, despite the sicknesses that ravage the region, only 20 of the facility's beds are filled. "People can't come anymore because gas is so expensive," explains administrator Claudette Munro. "If they arrive here, it's to die." In the hospital's morgue, Munro pulls open a drawer holding the bodies of eight children. A newborn lies on top, still clad in pink knit baby booties. Next to him is the body of a young boy, whose ribs are so clearly visible they can be counted through the dead skin. "His father brought him in yesterday," explains Munro...
...stop someone just as easily with a shotgun. What can you do with a handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse's chest in a wild fit of rage, but might regret having done that afterwards...
...still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed his awesomely detailed Guide, which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South Australia. But few readers will ever get to share his delight in $500 Montrachets that have long since vanished from the marketplace...
...chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
Spicy curly fries or teriyaki beef tips could be stacked miles high on the serving line, but every lunch without fail I will head for the tuna drawer...