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...Steve Allen Show. This was the second of two syndicated late-night shows that Allen hosted through the '60s, a nightly, 90-minute showcase for his rowdy, improvisational comedy. Shows would typically open with some unscripted bit, and one night everyone in the audience was handed foam-rubber bricks and bats and told that, in honor of the campus unrest making headlines, when Steve ventured into the crowd, we'd erupt into an "audience riot." Since I had just come from real riots in Berkeley, it was hard not to feel, even then, that Steve Allen was already passing into...
...likely to charm them; but he could be their bodyguard and protect them from polluters, swindlers, profiteers. Gore had a crisis with politics after Vietnam. He drifted through divinity school and into journalism, but as his biographer Bill Turque notes, his longtime friends saw this as just stretching the rubber band before it yanked him back to the family business. Why else practice the tricks that help you remember people's names and faces, take that speed-reading course? He may not have been a natural, but he was willing to work at it, visit more factories, drive farther, sleep...
...numb the memories of decades, centuries, millenia of internecine struggle. Peace can, however, evolve out of stability. We should not force final agreements or accords to those who don't want them, but work towards achieving a world without the terrors of Molotov cocktails, tear gas and fatal rubber bullets...
...comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe...
...escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict means that the suicide-bomb attack that killed as many as 17 U.S. armed-forces personnel in Yemen on Thursday is unlikely to be the last. Although it?s far too early to say just who rammed a U.S. destroyer with a rubber dinghy packed full of explosives, it?s relatively safe to assume the attack is not unrelated to the violence currently unfolding in the Palestinian territories. That?s not to imply in any way that the perpetrators were Palestinian - the U.S. has plenty of enemies throughout the Arab world, and its flag...