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Gumbo too thin. Gotsta be thick, like Elmer's Glue. And where de rice? It don' come wid rice? Mon Dieu! Not too spicy, eider. But we add tobasco. Plenty. Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in dey pot . . . Eh! Octav'! Don' lick deh spoon...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

This course would address how to wait until the precise moment when the beggar is bothering the guy in front of you so you can shuffle past undetected. Students would also receive advanced training in various techniques of using large joy-buzzers, and how to crazy-glue that guy's hands to his cheeks...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...disease, which can occur when the tissues of a transplant recipient are attacked by implanted adult cells. Also, fetal nerve cells, unlike adult cells, can regenerate and thus have the potential to repair a damaged brain or spinal cord. "These properties," says Green, "make fetal cells a very exciting glue to tie together injured or diseased areas of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

There NATO doctrine rested for the following decade. Despite the frequent controversies regarding deployment, nuclear weapons provide the glue that has held the Western Alliance together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dangers of a Nuclear-Free World | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...years that followed, a strange situation developed around this inanimate object. Whenever the authorities did not like something, it was our car that suffered. Two tires would be punctured or a window smashed or smeared with a durable glue. If something like that happened to our car, we knew that we had done something bad by their standards: perhaps we had managed to talk to someone on the street or at the market, or had gone to the wrong place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of the Sakharovs' Car | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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