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...There are few other diversions. The newspapers I bring are read and reread, then torn into strips to use as cigarette papers. Alcohol is banned and food is scarce. For two days there is gristly pork-a treat for the guests-and afterwards only tiny salted fish or lentil gruel. When the Philippine army blocks supply routes, the rebels hunt the depleted forests for wild pigs, monkeys, snakes and beetle grubs...
...Just when you thought it was safe... In 1972, the Clean Water Act, which called for "swimmable, fishable waters," prompted a Potomac purging. But last fall, the appearance of intersex fish - which have male and female organs - renewed concerns about swimming, fishing and drinking the water...
...predictability of recent Sundance films is a pity, because the fest used to discover original movie minds. The honor roll of those who introduced their early work there includes both the big fish of indie cinema (among them Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith and Darren Aronofsky) and some of the mainstream's champion swimmers (including Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Bryan Singer and Christopher Nolan...
...dreaded making rounds on a patient for whom there was no good news, no good plan. When his doctors rescanned his head, there was barely any brain left. The cerebral machine that talked and wondered, winked and sang, the machine that remembered jokes and birthdays and where the big fish hid on hot days, was nearly gone, replaced by lumps of haphazardly growing gray stuff. Gone with that machine seemed David as well. No expression, no response to anything we did to him. As far as I could tell, he was just not there...
...that, it was about chemicals," says Antoinette Bruno, editor-in-chief of Starchefs, an influential chef's magazine. "This year is the return to flavor." Several speakers at the conference concurred. Montse Estruch, of the Catalan restaurant El Cingle, boosted the taste of a beautifully presented San Peter's fish with a handful of violet petals. In a talk that drew on his own experience raising animals and vegetables for his Blue Hill restaurants in New York, chef Dan Barber generated buzz with a discussion of why allowing lambs to graze on grass is not only better for the environment...