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...tapas include olives directly from a small grove in southern France and panisses, which are seasoned chick pea fries common in Spain...
...night of pea-soup fog in January 1944, Eisenhower arrived in London as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force that would invade the Continent. Roosevelt had decided he simply could not spare Chief of Staff Marshall, the man everyone assumed would command D-day. Instead the order signed by Britain and the U.S. went to Eisenhower: "You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces...
...partner in their Hat Creek outfit until McCrae died of stubbornness. Captain Call, getting old but tough as a boot, is a bounty hunter now. He still acts like a Ranger officer, however, and when the assignment comes to deal with the train robber Joey Garza, he wires Pea Eye, another old Ranger. He just assumes that Pea Eye will show up as if he were still under orders...
...Pea Eye is middle-aged now, with five kids and a wife. He can't say no to the Captain, but love and good sense tie him to his family. In a jumbled kind of way, he manages to honor both obligations, and everyone heads toward the Mexican border and the winding down of McMurtry's beguiling legend. The author's minor characters are sketched with a fine, loose skill; there's an old Indian tracker named Famous Shoes, and a white man who has spent his life roaming the Southwest with a pack of dogs, killing off the region...
...live for 10 years, showing very few viruses in their blood before developing AIDS, conventional wisdom held that the deadly invaders were dormant much of that time. Not so, say two studies in Nature. The intruding virus immediately produces millions of copies that lie waiting in lymph nodes, pea-size organs found throughout the body. Once key parts of the immune system are destroyed, this reservoir of viruses spills over into the blood. Such a massive behind-the-scenes attack may make it impossible to rid the body of the viruses. The researchers note that these findings underscore once again...