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That's part of the reason that HBO, which bills itself as the network that makes shows the others can't, picked up The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a sprawling octopus of a story that follows a single drug investigation over 13 episodes. (Later this month Showtime adds Street Time, an earnest but somewhat tone-deaf series about parolees and parole officers.) Creator David Simon says The Wire is "not a cop show" but a series about how the drug trade and the war against it have become institutions that chew up and spit out the people who work...
...August, Dutton will publish "The Octopus and the Orangutan: More True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity" by TIME contributor Eugene Linden...
There's a new axis of evil threatening the world's security - Dr. Octopus, Magneto, the Kingpin of Crime, and the Green Goblin (among others). Fortunately, the forces of light are mobilizing too - Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, the X-Men. Battles between good and evil are poised to commence in cinemas around the world, starting soon...
...effete charms of the a cappella circuit. To many undergraduates these activities seem like perfectly acceptable ways to pass the time between the early evening reruns of “Third Rock From The Sun” and bedtime. These poor individuals are sorely misguided: Every morsel of octopus sushi consumed and every Stravinsky Wind Octet ticket sold confirm the sad pretensions of Harvard’s student body...
...xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from a soak in a spinach marinade. We share hefeng (gentle wind) salad?a cold plate made up of star fruit, dragon fruit, octopus, asparagus and spinach drizzled with a savory sauce?and a plate piled with plump bamboo shoots. The three of us eat our fill for less than...