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...residents became as diverse as the bounty of their vegetable patches. A bond salesman who had never gardened before started raising onions, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley, snow peas, chard and kale. Near him is a physics professor who once specialized in nuclear energy and now prefers the solar kind. There are schoolteachers and state-government employees (Sacramento is 15 miles away), young couples and retirees. Although the houses grew as large as 3,000 sq. ft., Corbett built several 1,000-sq.-ft. units for low-income residents...
Until three years ago, I was getting a cold three or four times a year. But since I started eating garlic, I have not had a single cold. Each day I have a garlic clove with breakfast, along with a spoonful of parsley to eliminate the odor. I don't know about vampires, but it sure works against colds. PAGET SAYERS Managua...
...what to do about taxes. After drawing nearly all the blood from Bob Dole's political body during their primary bout, Steve Forbes went to Washington last week to join the great Republican transfusion. He was there to help Dole devise an appealing economic message, beyond the vague verbal parsley in his speeches about abolishing the irs and replacing it with "a flatter, fairer, simpler" income tax. Though Republicans know well from experience the appeal of tax reform, Dole runs a risk by adopting the supply-side theories he has long disparaged and swelling a deficit he has fought, often...
...real work of art was that night's appetizer special ($4.95), a very light, very large pastry shell filled with a copious assortment of veggies: eggplant, tomato, scallion, mushroom, red pepper. The whole concoction was saturated with a thick, browned butter and garlic sauce, with thinly-chopped parsley subduing the richness. Says Annette, "I hate all of those vegetables normally, but in the medium of the sauce, it was really good." Says Adam, "Ditto (well, really it's the eggplant and mushroom I won't even look...
...statement offers more rhetorical parsley before finally serving up some solutions. "We must begin paying off the debt by the year 2000," reads the | document promisingly, before descending into a laundry list of the obvious. "Combat waste, fraud and abuse . . . Streamline government." Churlishly, the declaration focuses on the programs of the elderly as a source of income for the young. "Social security is a generational scam . . . Raise the retirement age." Does this mean Grandpa should go back to work...