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...searching weren't nerve-racking enough, operating the detectors requires great skill because the instruments, sensitive enough to home in on a bomb, can be confused by the soup of a metropolis' naturally occurring radiation. Freshly paved roads, yellow rest-room tiles, the Vermont granite used in some of Washington's federal buildings, a patient walking out of a hospital after radiation therapy, even a bunch of bananas can set off the detectors. Finding a nuclear bomb in a city, according to a searcher, "is like looking for a needle in a haystack of needles...
...encrusted duck breast, sauteed speckled trout, fried soft-shell crawfish, salad with vinaigrette dressing and--for those who had room left for it--Mardi Gras cake. Every dish was prepared the old-fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That's because Chef Folse had cooked it not with conventional oil but rather with an experimental--and as yet unapproved--synthetic oil called olestra. Olestra is the stealth missile of fat molecules; it passes through the gastrointestinal tract without being digested...
TROUBLE FOR SOUP KITCHENS...
...unique view of the world with all the subtlety of a firing Kalashnikov. Barely taking a breath, he railed against the country's new bankers, threatened to rain napalm down on villagers in the Caucasus region who kill Russian soldiers, and promised every hungry Russian a bowl of soup. "Russian fathers, do you know where your daughters are?" Zhirinovsky asked. "They're selling their bodies to buy clothes and cosmetics...
...their big chance, Alma answers only the bells she chooses," says her friend Elayne Bennett, the wife of former Education Secretary William Bennett. "There's nothing she's after here." (Not that she is idle: without fanfare, she sits on the Kennedy Center board, makes sandwiches at a Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls.) As her husband's career advanced, Alma had to perform a series of increasingly public roles. She excelled, but didn't always enjoy the social grind that might take...