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...message to the public and the health authorities. Although there is no vaccine or antidote for ricin poisoning, the substance is not suitable for killing on a mass scale. In one of Agatha Christie's earliest detective stories, The House of Lurking Death (1929), the killer put ricin in fig-paste sandwiches and a cocktail glass, claiming three lives. Said to be deadlier than cobra venom, the poison works most effectively when injected or ingested...
...DeBisschop says. Meyers nods. “Great complexity,” he says. “If you hadn’t told me anything about this I would have thought it was a Belgian brown ale.” Slesar thinks he picks up on a fig taste. “There’s a fig thing going on, there’s some residual sweetness, the hop profile’s really good,” he says. “It’s figgy, and it’s kind of biscuity?...
...could have been whipped, and a chilled interior contrasting with the sliver-thin caramelized topping. There are few words to describe the perfect crème brulée, but I know it when I eat it. Cheeses come from the inimitable Formaggio Kitchen, and, served with flatbread and fig preserves, are always exemplary...
...often--in Bosnia and Rwanda, for example--humanitarian workers have simply served as fig leaves, moral cover for big powers that did not want to get involved. As long as telegenic humanitarians put on a morally satisfying show of Western deus ex machina, caring for refugees on the 6:30 news, then governments can procrastinate. Take, for instance, the legal dithering of the Clinton Administration on Rwanda (where 800,000 dying in eight weeks amounted to an immense crime of omission): It depends on what the meaning of the word genocide...
...main north-south highway. Just out of sight of the hash hills upstream, the desert is swallowing Deh Naw whole. Five-meter-high sand dunes have crashed over the village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access to fetid water from a ditch half a day's ride away by donkey. Abdul Shakur, 63, says every few weeks a huge sandstorm traps...