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...country's 400-year occupation by the Moors. As they are in North Africa, almonds, egg yolks and honey are the major ingredients of most sweets; regional specialties, however, feature a delicious 16th century cheesecake, rich custards like tocino del cielo (literally, fat from heaven) and some memorable fruit flans, including a luscious apple tart with custard and apple-jelly topping. Que aproveche! Good eating...
...creation of this chocoholic's dream may not be "the ultimate chocolate cake," as claimed by her publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
Jubilant Administration officials saw the rally as a rousing endorsement of the President's policies. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "The stock market is bullish on America. The seeds of economic recovery planted last year are now bearing fruit." There was more than a touch of irony in the Administration's praise of the stock market's wisdom. Only about 18 months ago, when share prices started falling, President Reagan said, "I have never found Wall Street a source of good economic advice...
...flower shops are open again, with their carnations and birds of paradise spilling out of the open stalls and onto the sidewalks. Fruit and vegetables are once more being hawked on nearly every street corner, and coffee wagons have again sprouted their gaily colored umbrellas along the avenues. The sound of a car backfiring is likely to be exactly that and not the blast of gunfire. And early every morning, joggers of every description-Lebanese and foreigners, students and businessmen, paratroopers and housewives-swarm along the Avenue de Paris, popularly known as the Corniche...
...cell. Investigating this possibility, Microbiologists J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco made an astonishing discovery: genes almost identical to the cancer-causing genes in viruses can be found in the normal cells of all manner of creatures, from fruit flies to humans. The supposition is that these harmless genes can easily be turned into the dangerous genes they so closely resemble. In this sense, says Bishop, "cancer may be part of the genetic dowry of every living cell...