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...myself into a corner,” he said between blows, pointing out the failure of his attempts at “bilateral flaking,” an ancient process by which bits of stone are driven off both sides of a rock to create a tool with a knife-like edge...
...basement a few meters away from Roach, graduate student Katherine D. Zink’s electric knife buzzed through what appeared to be some rather tough goat meat...
...meat] down to small-sized pieces,” she conceded. “But still, these roasts are an opportunity to get people together and learn how to make Paleolithic stone tools, to do it how you used to do it before you got the electric knife...
...that has only five ingredients. But things got easier. Italian suddenly clicked. I could eye my vanilla gelato to see how much longer it needed in the mixer and judge the doneness of my frittata by its firmness. After slicing watermelon every morning for breakfast, I could wield a knife as deftly as a pencil. I could give porcini mushrooms a sponge bath with my eyes closed. I knew the recipe for egg pasta by heart and they counted on me to make the daily batch of dough. By the end of my stay, my ankles were swollen, my forearms...
...still a running gun battle with al-Qaeda in Iraq" in the northern part of the country around Mosul. U.S. troops there are "still in the 'clear' phase of 'clear, hold, build' counterinsurgency strategy," said Nagl, a West Point graduate and author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam who recently helped Petraeus rewrite the Army/Marine Corps' Counterinsurgency Field Manual. "There's still a fight going on up north, and we're going to have a fight there for awhile...