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...some warm water and soaking time, you can hydrate Melissa's Dried Wood Ear Mushrooms to edibility in your own dorm room. These mushrooms are so non-perishable, the package makes the claim that they in fact have no expiration date. The eternal fungi also come in Wild Lobster, Oyster and Shiitake...
...three separate branches stuck into three separate, walled-off areas of plots of land. In "Heroes," three insects stand atop white platforms of varying heights, their arms outstretched in a victory pose, while in "ship of fools," three insects look out into the distance from the bow of an oyster shell, while another tires to pull a drowning companion aboard...
...craft and antique shows. Some folks bring cameras and sketchpads to chronicle the Sultana Shipbuilding Project, a community endeavor to create a two-masted 18th century schooner for educational projects. Others are enticed by the Blue Heron Cafe, an American seafood restaurant known for its to-die-for oyster fritters...
...turquoise speckles, but it's hard to say exactly what color any patch of the gelatinous mosaic is because each is so modified by contrasting touches within its small boundaries. The biggest shape in this aquarium light rises diagonally across the picture: a bath, like an immense open oyster, in which floats the body of a woman, all legs, shining indistinctly in the water. She seems in a trance--her face can't be read as a face but more as a spongy clump of jeweled paint. She is as indifferent as coral, not posing but tenderly spied...
When applying for aid, however, don't assume that you can go around collecting scholarships from different sources outside the college and still get the same amount from the financial-aid office. Sparlha Swaby of Oyster Bay, N.Y., won a combined $12,000 in scholarship monies and assumed it would simply be tacked onto the more than $20,000 in grants she was getting from Stanford. But Stanford's policy at the time (it has since been changed) was to count that outside help against its own contribution--and so reduced the total awarded Sparlha by more than...