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...affiliated hospitals' various projects and this new complex are expected to take seven years to build; the combined total cost is expected to mushroom to $800 million...
...Music] Mushroom Records...
...have a better idea. How about a cooking show for the rest of us? If your Cuisinart is gathering dust, if you account for some of foodtv.com's 16 million monthly page views yet will never make Crab and Wild-Mushroom Cheesecake with a Green-Onion Coulis, if culinary debate in your house centers on whether to pick up Happy Meals at the drive-through or eat inside, then tune in to Reality Bites...
...need for such a program in Kennett Square, home of a thriving mushroom industry that has drawn an ethnically diverse population of 22,000, was revealed to Denise Wood and Marshall Newton while they were working on a three-year community quality-of-life survey sponsored by their church. One of the recurring laments heard on taped interviews conducted by Newton, a former financial manager for DuPont, was the lack of activities for children between the end of the school day and the time parents return home from work...
...imagery. Witness a marvelous ink painting of vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd...