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Among Americans, the most popular pepper is the innocuous bell, followed by the pimento, used in making paprika and stuffing olives, and the green jalapeno, common in nachos and green salsas. Chile connoisseurs also extol the virtues of such lesser-known varieties as the smoky chipotle, the fleshy red- brown poblano, the piquant pequin and the sweet-tasting habanero, which is famed, perhaps notorious, for its pure, blazing fire. In New Mexico, the chile-growing capital of the U.S., the longish local variety is often served stuffed with cheese or as a topping for hamburgers and pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Like It Hot | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...refer to wine and cafes as much as beer and honky-tonks. They worry about keeping in shape and, in an era of middle-class constriction, about keeping ahead. The women sing about their heartbreaks, but they also rejoice in their sexual independence and ponder their opportunities. Both genders extol the virtues of marital longevity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Supporters Extol Candidates' Virtues...

Author: By Sara A. Bibel and Natasha H. Leland, S | Title: With One Year to Go, Campaign Efforts Grow But Undergraduates Are Still Largely Apathetic | 10/25/1991 | See Source »

...people are growing up in homes where family life is unknown. For me, in South Africa, family was the citadel, the center that kept me alive. Also, what does this society hold up for its young people as the values to emulate? On television and in real life you extol materialism, villains and people who circumvent the law and achieve success by cheating and lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARK MATHABANE: Taking The Measure of American Racism | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...seem to be welcoming Eastern Europe into the capitalist world. A Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Now the Wall's A Billboard | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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