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...About a month before our trip, she begins collecting small toys and games--a deck of cards here, a cache of toy soldiers there--and wraps them as presents to dole out whenever backseat warfare appears imminent. We're going retro this year with Viewmaster reels, portable Parchesi, Mr. Potato Head and other childhood relics that our digitized kids find oddly intriguing...
Achari aloo, from central India, showed the Indian passion for potatoes. Bright with tumeric and black mustard seed and the bite of chilies, the potatoes delighted the palate. An unusual Parsee dish from Bombay, lamb sali boti, was flavored with apricots as well as ginger and a potpourri of spices. A few potato straws floated across the top. The combination was intriguing, the savory lamb against the slight piquancy of the apricots...
Barak was no great hit with the public either. In small settings, he could be charming and light. But in crowds he bored audiences with stiff pontifications. Commentator Larry Derfner wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Barak came across as a "potato," an impression that stuck. When the candidate finally did blurt out something sexy, it was a gaffe: he said that if he'd been born Palestinian he probably would have joined a terrorist organization...
...source so as to determine risk to monarch larvae at each site. Says Losey: "We have to weigh the costs and benefits [of Bt corn], then decide as a society what we want." But that decision may already have been made. The Bt gene is now regularly spliced into potatoes (as protection against the Colorado potato beetle) and cotton (against the boll weevil...
JACK OHMAN, The Oregonian I like drawing Dan Quayle because I think he looks like a Furby or one of the Campbell's soup kids, and frankly some of the other people out in politics today look like Mr. Potato Heads. Everybody is so bland looking. Those are the kinds of people that drive you crazy. My idea of hell would be having to draw George W. Bush for eight years...