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...doctorates in geology-paleontology and biology, confesses that she learned to cook only after marrying Italian- American Victor Hazan in 1955. It was a struggle at first. After working as a biological researcher at New York City's Guggenheim Foundation by day, she would rush home each night to fix dinner. American supermarkets shocked her: "The food was dead, wrapped in plastic coffins." She became a professional cook by accident in 1969, when friends in a Chinese cooking class asked for Italian recipes. (Her fame was sealed by Claiborne, who came to lunch one day and went home raving...
...They don't care about these kids. I don't mean that there are not people ; who care. But when this wonderful "they" we always blame for anything say we've got to fix the schools, or we have got to legalize drugs, what they care about is their personal well-being: Am I going to get mugged? Are the homeless going to be in my neighborhood...
...worth $120 million, using subsidies extended to other buyers of U.S. surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive: "What Gorbachev wants to do is fill up his stores and put something on the shelves fast. A housewife who can't find cooking oil is in a hell of a fix." This expert insists that the White House has nixed the sale, and adds, "Gorbachev is going to view it as a hostile...
...familiar with the adage that you shouldn't fix anything unless it's broken. This is not a broken high school," McLaurin said...
...more likely consequence is that the P.R.I., faced with the prospect of social instability, would abandon current economic reforms for quick-fix policies that would mollify the masses. As Mexicans are fond of pointing out, their country has a long tradition of avoiding seemingly inevitable political upheaval. "The P.R.I. has an almost magical power to redirect itself to reflect the needs of the country," says a Mexican official. "And so we have the young technocrats running things. But if they should fail, then look for a wave of populism." If that happens, Salinas could easily turn against Washington...