Word: soups
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Such a hodgepodge is considered a cumbersome and ugly solution by many theorists. Says Princeton University's Jeremiah Ostriker: "It's like you're making soup, and you add a little salt, and it doesn't taste right, so you add a little pepper." Still, in the confounding world of astrophysics, the simplest and most elegant theories often fail, and there is no reason to assume that the recipe for the cosmos would be bland...
Delhi Daubar prides itself on affordable brunch and luncheon specials complete with the soup of the day, rice and onion chutney, Pabla said...
MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...
...specialized cells that manufacture nerve growth factors. They serve as a bridge for the remaining nerve cells to cross over and re-establish contact. Other researchers are using fetal tissue for this purpose. Paul Reier of the University of Florida in Gainesville has achieved dramatic results by injecting a soup of fetal nerve cells into the damaged spines of cats. Felines that couldn't walk at all before surgery regained a limited ability to walk. Rejection, says Reier, remains the biggest hurdle...
...mysteries of what packaged foods really contain. Finalized after weeks of wrangling between the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the 4,000 pages of regulations spell out guidelines for labeling the amount of calories, fat and nutrients in everything from potato chips to cans of soup. This boon to the consumer doesn't come cheap. By May of 1994, more than 270,000 food labels must be changed, costing the industry about $2 billion. But, it will be worth the trouble, says HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, "The Tower of Babel in food labels has come down...