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...repast?" I asked cheerfully, reaching for the sports pages of the New York Times. "Ambrosia," they answered in unison. How suitably mythological, I thought -- the food of Greece's ancient deities. In Manhattan one can buy damn near everything, I always say. And ambrosia it was -- Kellogg's Wheat-Nut Ambrosia, a new product described as low in fat, high in bran...
...Africanized bee's physiology. There is some evidence, for example, that killer bees do not thrive in colder climates. But even if they colonize only in the warmer Southern states, there is plenty of reason to worry about the potential costs. Lost sales of honey and damage to fruit, nut and vegetable crops worth billions of dollars each year could be substantial, not to mention lives lost to fatal stings...
...world-renowned speed racer turned millionaire sports promoter, Mickey Thompson took a daring attitude toward trouble. Last November he remarked to friends in the Los Angeles area that some "nut" had been phoning him with death threats. "Mickey told me that some cuckoos were calling him at home," recalled Ernie Alvarado, who knew Thompson for 30 years. "He thought he knew who it was. I asked if he had called the police, and he just said it was taken care...
Eleven a.m., primary day, Nashua, N.H. Lee Atwater, George Bush's campaign ! manager, is nearly beside himself with nervous energy. He has five phones going in his room at the Clarion Hotel. Ordinarily a health nut, he has mooched several cigarettes from assistants this morning, and puffs on them rapidly like a teenager learning how to smoke. An underling calls with the latest intelligence from fieldworkers: "Bush, by a point or two." The news is hardly reassuring, but Atwater keeps talking about a comeback. "One way a candidate, particularly a front runner, gets good," he says, "is to look into...
...course, he pretended he was just going to use the bathroom," and he called me a crazy nut. The fool! Did he think I could so easily be duped? I knew what he was up to. Obviously the person in charge of hair application in my home had arranged with my roommate to secretly carry on the tradition. I slept well that night...