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...lends the restaurant its name. Then order some classic tapas - nutty Iberian ham, spiced shrimp and oil-drenched salads (skip the uninspired tomato bread) - to tide you over the 30-minute wait for seafood paella. Okay, paella isn't strictly speaking a tapas dish, but when it's this moist and intensely flavored who cares...
With weather forecasters calling for moist ocean breezes on Thursday to further dampen the fires, and hundreds of thousands of Californians returning to their homes, Schwarzenegger's crisis appears to be ending the way many of his movies wrapped up: with a lot of smoke and wreckage, but with the hero stronger than ever. This is one time, however, that Arnold would prefer not to star in a sequel...
...Frigid temperatures are no easier on the hitters. Jeff Conine, the recently retired 17-year vet who played for a Florida Marlins in that '97 series, remembers his contacts fogging up in the Cleveland cold. "I had to keep blinking to keep my eyes moist," he says. "This is a very bad thing. It was almost like a film was over my eyes." The eyes of other players tend to tear up in the frost, which makes if harder for them to see the ball...
...those accustomed to the typical North African couscous of Paris (moist yellow semolina granules doused with spicy stew - fast, cheap and filling), Wally's $55 Tuareg banquet is a camel of a different color. Diners have one choice: red wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions...
Deborah Rodriguez left two sons and a failed marriage behind in Holland, Michigan, when she headed to war-shattered Afghanistan in 2002 with a few weeks of disaster-relief training and a suitcase full of moist towelettes. "I imagined I would spend the month there bandaging wounds, splinting broken limbs, clambering over the rubble, and helping people who were still hiding from the Taliban," she writes. "I didn't have any idea that I'd still be here five years later doing spiral perms and introducing the art of pubic waxing...