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...dinner in New York City for the TIME 100. Juanes, the Colombian rock star, opened the evening, Jon Stewart delivered an exceptionally witty monologue, and then the glorious Melissa Etheridge brought the guests to their feet with her set, culminating in the Janis Joplin classic Me and Bobby McGee. More than 50 influentials attended, and several of them--Bill Belichick, Martha Stewart, the architect Santiago Calatrava, the Dutch women's-rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai and Eliot Spitzer--toasted those who had influenced them...
...downs," inmates are released only for a ten-minute shower every other day, spending the rest of the time seething in their cells. After each of Folsom's recent lock-downs, inmates have emerged ornery as ever. "All the lock-downs do is buy time," says Prison Chaplain James McGee...
...flip side of airborne Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, except White's style is to avoid notice, to be so good that nobody sees he is there, and incidentally to get in front of the ball. His relay to Brett at third base in the first game to disabuse Willie McGee of a triple approximated poetry...
...well. It bounces off a satellite into the electronic ears of more than 260 U.S. public radio stations--plus, antipodally enough, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation--and householders across the land shush one another the way people did decades ago when Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, or Fibber McGee and Molly came on the air. The theater audience settles back...
...some regrettable omissions. For example, there are only a few value judgments. In the section on oranges, it would have been helpful if the author had explained that those from Florida are juicier and sweeter than their California counterparts but have a less distinct true orange flavor. Although McGee describes how eggs are washed during the process of being prepared for market, he does not add that the practice is prohibited in European Community countries because it removes the protective bloom, a film the hen deposits on the shell. McGee also gives scant coverage to vegetables, fruits, herbs and nuts...