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...serving plate. Eat the artichoke by pulling off one leaf at a time and scraping off the pulp between your teeth. You can dip them in melted butter or olive oil first, if you like. When all the leaves have been eaten, enjoy the tender artichoke hearts, scraping off the fuzzy choke that completely cover the heart before...
...With a small teaspoon or espresso spoon, scrape away the choke all the way down to the artichoke heart - the smooth, firm flesh below the choke. Be sure to scrap the choke from the entire surface of the artichoke heart. The artichoke is now ready for stuffing...
...sudden solicitude for employees' well-being? You can probably guess. Health-benefit costs have shot up 31% in the past five years, Towers Perrin notes, with no end in sight. A huge and growing component of those costs: chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes that often stem from unhealthy behaviors. Says Rachel Permuth-Levine, a deputy director at the National Institutes of Health: "Given that many employers are staggering under health-insurance costs linked to these diseases, prevention should be a no-brainer." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...damage its political standing. We believe that the release of the photographs would allow the American people to document the abuse of detainees and create a system in which future mistakes could be prevented. As such, we are extremely disappointed in the Obama administration’s change of heart and hope that this does not mark a turn away from its heretofore transparent and praiseworthy decisions regarding the treatment of prisoners...
...President has cultivated this grass-roots support through a series of televised town-hall meetings. On Saturday, he took his road show to a high school gymnasium in Pereira, a city in the heart of Colombia's coffee belt. Rolling up his sleeves and reveling in the minutiae of crop prices and road-paving projects, Uribe seemed more like an alderman. He cracked jokes, fielded requests for new ambulances and even got into a debate over the best spot to build a small sugar mill...