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Welcome to the Head, Joe. Your college town will host 200,000 drunken underage visitors this weekend. And just think--any one of them could barf on your Oriental rug before the weekend is over.
In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the main culprits are wild boars, descendants of animals imported to North Carolina in 1912 for hunting. The boars weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as...
, Now that the initial emergency has been met, the Kremlin has been assessing its own interests in the complex situation. In effect, the U.S.S.R. wants to keep a foot in both camps, working with the international opposition -- and reaping the political goodwill and potential economic rewards of being a team...
Pan-fried Sichuan chicken is a good example. Chicken breasts are sauteed in a regular skillet, then drenched in a delicious sauce composed of the usual Chinese suspects: oyster, bean and hoisin sauces, sherry instead of Chinese wine, ginger, garlic, chili sauce and Sichuan peppercorns. Another of the charms of...
The issue, tinged with prejudice and artifice, is as old as theater. In Shakespeare's day, Othello was acted by whites -- and Olivier played the Moor - in blackface in the 1960s. In old Hollywood, where nonwhites were nonstars, Caucasians often played Oriental roles. Marlon Brando kowtowed through The Teahouse of...