Word: evens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owing in part to the burgeoning interest in finer teas. Classy restaurants are shedding cheap tea bags for menus of luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit...
...what's brewing here? Tea once was regarded as a bitter-tasting second choice to coffee by most Americans. But in the mid 1990s, interest perked up when studies suggested that the drink, particularly green tea, can ward off some cancers, packs a wallop of vitamin C and even boasts fluoride for the teeth. A Harvard study this year found that a cup of black tea a day cuts the risk of heart attacks by 44%. What's more, caffeine freaks, jangly from coffee's finger-in-the-socket jolt and drop, are coming to appreciate the smoother caffeine boost...
...want to be seen as copycats and that they were planning their own horror before other school shootings made news. Nevertheless, we had to wrestle with whether running a picture of them might seem, perversely, to glorify them to other twisted minds or give them the publicity they wanted, even though they are dead...
There is little money to be had in sheepdog trialing; even the richest purses fail to break $3,000. Nor, for the less than dangerous, is there much glory. "You get knocked down," says Adrienne Paier Wienir, 55, an artist from Encino, displaying a fresh bruise on her forehead. "You get covered with dust and sheep snot...
...ABOUT MY MOTHER A Madrid nurse (Cecilia Roth), luxuriating in grief, goes to Barcelona, where she learns to live again by tending to creatures even more wounded than she. Pedro Almodovar's screwball melodrama has all the kooky verve of his early comedies, but with a depth and life-enhancing warmth that proves Spain's bad boy has reached a vibrant maturity. If this movie doesn't touch your heart, consult a cardiologist. You may be missing something...