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...ANITA HAMILTON usually writes about the latest websites and tech gadgets, but for the past few months she's been looking into the year's best inventions, from state-of-the-art artificial hearts to a potato-mashing machine. See the results of her research in this week's magazine and chat with her on Wednesday...
...Mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food. But boiling the potatoes and whipping them up just right is a drag. Now homemaker Carmina O'Connor of Warrenville, Ill., has patented a mashed-potato machine that cooks, mashes and flavors potatoes in just 20 min. Chefs insert washed potatoes into a food processor-size device and add water and seasonings. A finalist in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention 2001 competition, O'Connor hopes that someday "mashed-potato machines will be for Americans what rice cookers are for Asians." Now all she needs is someone to make and market her invention...
...REILLY'S CHIPS, $16.95 A MONTH Sign up at Anchor O'Reilly's Chip of the Month Club www.chipofthemonth.com to have six bags of chips with exotic flavors and uncommon brands from across the country delivered to your man's doorstep every month. It gives the term couch potato a whole new meaning...
...women do ever walk outside in Afghanistan, they look furtive, scurrying from one place to another in head-to-toe burkas. The men recognize their wives by subtle gradations of their billowy contours: potato-shaped, pepper-shaped, turnip-shaped...
...Rajneeshee, a Buddhist cult devoted to beauty, love and guiltless sex, brewed a "salsa" of salmonella and sprinkled it on fruits and veggies in the salad bar at Shakey's Pizza in The Dalles, Ore. They put it in blue-cheese dressing, table-top coffee creamers and potato salads at 10 local restaurants and a supermarket. They poured it into a glass of water and handed it to a judge. They fed it to the district attorney, the doctor, the dentist. Their plan: to seize control of the county government by packing polling booths with imported homeless people while making...