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...quiz. Name and locate the following: Hecla, Monrovia, Manitoba and Orinoco. Now for a math problem: If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is the worth at 50? a bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare? (Hint: a bushel of wheat is 60 lbs. You're on your own for tare...
What was the hottest topic on the floor of the GOP convention? I was there, and I can give you a hint: It wasn't Colin Powell's looming Cabinet appointment, or George P. Bush's dashing good looks. It wasn't even the dizzying prospect of kicking Al Gore's rump right back to Tennessee...
Should we look for the "real" Guinness in any of these beguiling, watchful creatures? Or in the hint of melodramatic mystery in his childhood as the illegitimate son of a man whose identity he didn't know? No. Guinness's art is beyond the reach of psychoanalysis or stargazing. His 1985 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise, begins with these words: "Enter EGO from the wings, pursued by fiends. Exit...
...Coke was adequate, and the shake interesting. The vanilla tasted more like French vanilla - a hint of butterscotch? - and the texture was pillowy, as if it somehow wasn't frozen. It had little of that wonderful icy "crunch" sometimes to be found in other fast-food milk shakes. But it grew on me, and soon I pushed away the last bites of cheeseburger (and many uneaten fries) and lingered sipping my dessert...
...Coke was adequate, and the shake interesting. The vanilla tasted more like French vanilla - a hint of butterscotch? - and the texture was pillowy, as if it somehow wasn't frozen. It had little of that wonderful icy "crunch" sometimes to be found in other fast-food milk shakes. But it grew on me, and soon I pushed away the last bites of cheeseburger (and many uneaten fries) and lingered sipping my dessert...