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...Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further embraces her nascent singlehood with earnestly delivered proclamations like "For the first time in my life, I don't know what's going to happen next...
...Chicago police, those masters of irony, rioted. They left their vehicles, marked WE SERVE AND PROTECT, and lumbered out to beat the demonstrators into Jell-O. Hard by the northern limits of their depredation we found and find a statue of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, famous 17th century hophead and remittance man. La Salle thought he had discovered China on that spot, and wrote to tell the folks at home...
Science may never be able to pin down the benefits of spirituality. Attempts by Benson and others to do so are like "trying to nail Jell-O to the wall," complains William Jarvis, a public-health professor at California's Loma Linda University and the president of the National Council Against Health Fraud. But it may not be necessary to understand how prayer works to put it to use for patients. "We often know something works before we know why," observes Santa Fe internist Larry Dossey, the author of the 1993 best seller Healing Words...
...concerto with the Boston Symphony, and he has just released a disc of suites for keyboard by Handel. Always a difficult composer to pigeonhole--he is scornful of minimalism, which his music sometimes resembles, and calls New Age music, which some profess to hear adumbrated in his solo improvisations, "Jell-O"--the protean Jarrett seems not only more successful but also more elusive than ever...
...offset the negative effects of gravity on protein crystal growth, Thiessen developed a method of growing protein crystals in a substance called agarose gel, which is similar in texture to Jell-O...