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...kill. From Mi>Vengeance Is Mine!: "I loved to shoot killers. I couldn't think of anything I'd rather do than shoot a killer and watch his blood trace a slimy path across the floor." The fights he gets into are manuals for barroom brawlers. Here's a how-to from My Gun Is Quick: "I jammed four big, stiff fingers into his gut right above the navel and he snapped shut like a jackknife. I opened him up again with an openhanded slap that left a blush across his mouth that was going to stay for a while...
...Cooking For Engineers This homemade site's innovative recipe design lets you see both ingredients and how-to steps in simple, streamlined grid...
...summer before they leave for school. The author was among the first to acknowledge the unprecedented level of obsession many American high school students have with the college admissions process—the flaws of which were in fact highlighted by this very accusation of plagiarism. Just as copies of how-to guides on every aspect of application season seem to fly off of Barnes and Noble shelves each fall, these works of fiction sell as spiritual companions of sorts—comprehensive accounts of day-to-day pre-college life that are more satisfying and inspiring than being bluntly...
...that good news? I feel pretty mixed about it. Ron Katz Paris Decoding a Best Seller Re "Five easy steps to a best seller" [March 27], on how The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's court testimony in the copyright case against him could be read as a blockbuster how-to: When I read his book, I enjoyed it greatly - but its close relation to Holy Blood, Holy Grail became increasingly obvious. The name of Brown's character Teabing is an anagram of the last name of Michael Baigent, one of the authors of Grail. A sixth step...
...those who know Batali only as the host of how-to cooking shows where he prepares uncommon Italian dishes--Paduan gnocchi, quail with peas, something called lamb squazetto and literally thousands of others--the NASCAR partnership will come as a surprise. (As will some of the dishes in the new cookbook, which include mudslide pie made with Oreos and graham crackers.) But Batali's visits to NASCAR events to research the book revealed--not least to him--that his appeal transcends foodies or Italophiles. Last June, just before he threw the green flag at the NASCAR event at Pocono Raceway...