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...Lord firmly suggests either the crab cakes mingled with kangaroo and served with nori or the tortillalike summer roll stuffed with scallops, shrimp and sesame sauce. And when my dinner companion chooses the blackened mackerel, Lord refuses to give it to him. "You'll be much happier with the soft-shell crab," he says as he walks away with the menus. Grudgingly, my tablemate later concurs that the soft-shell crabs with green papaya and mango were like nothing he'd ever tasted...
...meltingly sweet local shellfish. Entrées include flash-sautéed Skye scallops, citrus-roast halibut and Highland lamb served with pearl-barley risotto. Cranachan, a mixture of oatmeal, cream, honey and whisky, is a classic dessert. The influence of the Gulf Stream makes Skye fertile ground for soft fruits, so local raspberries accompany the cranachan, while sharp, green gooseberries are puréed and mixed with cream to make a traditional "fool." Spear sums up her approach as "best-quality produce, simply cooked." Her success has made her a spokeswoman for the industry - and has helped put Scottish...
...health questions but by financial considerations - a demand for blockbuster drugs to help pay for the 60% of drugs that don't return a profit. One result: an upsurge in marketing costs. In 2000 Merck spent $161 million promoting the arthritis remedy Vioxx, more than Pepsi spent advertising its soft drink. The big American drug giants in recent years have been outpacing European pharmaceutical companies, once the world's most successful. In 1990 Europe had the largest market share for drug sales, while today America has 47% of the market, nearly double the European share. There's also a brain...
With that posture--leaning forward, fists clenched--the Bush Administration has promised to set aside a longtime tradition of restraint in waging war, because the danger demands no less. Its members believe that the enemy is mobile and can't be deterred, the targets are soft and can't be protected, and the old rules of battle no longer apply. The war on terror is a war of annihilation, and the President's every instinct tells him that however divided America may be over policy or priorities, this is the only fight that matters...
...Lynne Cheney has gone so soft she wakes up to Morning Edition, although she has to reset her clock radio every day because it refuses to stay tuned to npr. When she hits the treadmill in the exercise room, she watches tapes of her favorite TV show, 24, about a federal agent foiling a terrorist attack...