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...modern tastes to create a new kind of haute Italian cuisine at his New York City restaurants, Alto and L'Impero. This book allows the home cook to re-create some of his signature dishes, including a sublimely creamy polenta with a fricassee of mushrooms and roasted baby goat. But he also offers quick-cooking dishes and meals to make from what you find in the cupboard as well as informative asides about techniques and wine pairings for each dish...
...game’s greatest strengths was creating an atmosphere so real and frightening that it blurred the line between the screen and reality. After an hour or so of play, you felt as if the monsters were coming for YOU, not Sarge or John Grimm or Goat. It gave you an incentive to play as if your life depended...
...entertaining history of early attempts at xenotransplantation, most notably the exploits of traveling doctor John R. Brinkley, a snake-oil pusher of the 1920s. Brinkley’s scam was convincing hundreds of American men that they could cure impotence (and restore their all-around vitality) through implanting goat testicles alongside their own gonads...
...walk with Tawoos and his friend Altaf up a steep goat track toward Kamal Kote. They are carrying a sack of flour, 20 packets of biscuits, three loaves of bread, three eggplants, one cabbage, some tea, a bag of sugar, a box of candles and a few loose cigarettes. They are the relief effort. "I buried 27 people yesterday," says Tawoos. He is pale with lack of sleep and bitterness, and has to take frequent rests. He tells us there are 317 dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with...
...With his nation divided along sectarian lines over the Tall 'Afar operation, al-Jafaari insists on assurances from military commanders that the battle will be a decisive success. The wait leaves the troops embittered, their momentum lost to what they see as political calculations. "This is turning into a goat f___," bemoans an angry Green Beret. By the time al-Jaafari approves the dreaded assault into al-Qaeda's heartland, it fizzles. Not a hostile shot is fired, not a single enemy fighter is found. Safe houses and weapons caches are empty, cleansed like an operating room. Only one blackened...