Word: simmerings
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...Emmett (Peter Paige) and Ted (Scott Lowell)--are, like the women of Sex and the City, a cross section of urban types. Most of them were born after the 1969 Stonewall protests launched the modern gay-rights movement, giving them the choice to stand out or assimilate, flame or simmer. All of them, pushing or just past 30, face the tyranny of age in the Logan's Run-like club scene. And Brian, an irresistible, bed-hopping Peter Pan, is suddenly beset with unwanted responsibility: for his new son (he donated sperm to the lesbians); for Justin, his lovestruck, naive...
...bloody civil strife held it back. Now that the dictatorship is gone, new plagues - crime, unemployment, AIDS - are hurting the fledgling democracy. But next to the rest of the continent, Nigeria gleams today. Major wars are tearing at Angola, both Congos, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan, while conflicts simmer in Burundi, Chad, Djibouti, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. And the United States is eager to school Nigeria's military in the ways of peace-keeping, at least in part to reduce calls on the United States to send troops to keep the peace in conflict-stricken Sierra Leone...
...chat online with other home cooks and download a recipe (with click-to-buy ingredients list, compiled in consultation with your e-frigerator), your TV points out that your host's handsome, copper saute pan is 25% off at Williams-Sonoma. Meanwhile, as the dish comes to a tantalizing simmer--at about 6:45 p.m., just when your family of four usually gets serious about ordering takeout--the TV suggests clicking to order etouffee (and nonspicy chicken fingers for the kids) from a local restaurant. It's a creepy intrusion, sure. But that etouffee looks mighty tasty...
...canola oil to Toss all vegetables into wok and let simmer lightly...
...canola oil to Toss all vegetables into wok and let simmer lightly...