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Product developers at major fast-food chains are tinkering with cooking methods that mimic the mouth-watering taste without all the artery-clogging fat. Producers J.R. Simplot, ConAgra Foods and Canada's McCain Foods are secretly developing oils for a healthier fry and introducing products like frozen wedges roasted in olive oil, rosemary and garlic. Even if those don't catch on, McDonald's and other chains are trotting out alternative side dishes like rice and yogurt. And as a last resort, there are faux fries concocted from rice flour or cornmeal...
ARMONICA Inspired by a man who played melodies by rubbing his wet fingers around the rims of wine glasses, Franklin built a machine to mimic the process. The player spun glass bowls- different sizes for each note-on a spindle and pressed wetted fingers to the glass to play tunes...
Director Peyton Reed (Bring It On) too often uses a gong where chimes would do, and his split-screen double entendres would have got Rock and Doris arrested. But Pierce is a perfect Tony Randall mimic in the hero's-pal role, down to the defeated slouch and the baritone whining. The film's costumes and design have a giddily precise exaggeration to them. And stay for the movie's denouement: a two-minute speech that wraps up the plot like Christmas ribbons around a time bomb...
...drinking 20 oz. of tea every day for at least two weeks doubled or tripled the immune system's output of an infection-fighting substance called interferon gamma. The coffee drinkers, by contrast, registered no difference in interferon-gamma production. Apparently the body metabolizes the tea into molecules that mimic the surface proteins of bacteria, jump-starting the immune system so that when real bugs show up, they can more easily be dispatched...
...sinensis. (Herbal teas are made from other plants.) The main varieties--black, green and oolong--reflect different processing techniques. If tea is in fact an immune booster, you would expect all three varieties to be equally effective since they are all broken down by the body into molecules that mimic bacterial proteins. There are differences, however, in the types and amounts of disease-preventing antioxidants various teas contain. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains more complex antioxidants called theaflavins and thearubigins. Chemically, oolong...