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...like Gushers, those capsules of wonderfully colored gooey chemicals that tasted sweet and for some reason were packaged and sold to parents of small children. Now that no one packs school lunches in my house anymore, the former snack cabinet is stacked high with cans of tomato paste, tuna fish, and other non-perishables. If my dad has been to the natural foods co-op recently, there may be a bag of “chunks of energy” that seem to be made entirely of congealed tofu and birdseed...
...Pasadena, Calif., and is associated with the California Institute of Technology, has been selling the electronic nose for more than a year. The company manufactured it for use in the food-service and chemical industries. The device can tell whether basil is fresh and warn if a shipment of fish has started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals. But following the Sept. 11 attacks, the $7,995 Cyranose may have a new application. Last week Cyrano Sciences began conducting tests to see whether the Nose can detect the odor of the bacterium that causes anthrax...
...only half a day or so to explore Tokyo, skip the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Tower and head to the Tsukiji fish market--particularly if you're jet-lagged and wide-eyed at 5 a.m. By then, everything from sea urchins to whales to whole tunas the size of third-graders is being chopped and auctioned at the market. Expect to ruin your khakis as merchants splatter past through puddles of fish slop...
Just this once, try fish for breakfast. Ask for the $17 sushi set at Sushi Dai, one of the many seafood eateries at the outdoor market adjacent to Tsukiji. Or try any place with a crowd or a line. Tokyo residents pride themselves on knowing good food--they shocked the folks at Zagat's with the harshness of their survey responses--so they'll queue for the best stuff...
...Taliban may ban television to their people, but they're not dumb. They understand its glittering global power. They wanted television; we print journalists were nothing more than pilot fish following in the wake of the network leviathans...