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...Medicare reforms Frist previously championed, which rely more on the market to provide benefits. But Frist has little experience, for example, collecting the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster on controversial bills. "The learning curve for him," says a senior Senate G.O.P. aide, "will be awfully steep...
...think Maine is overcrowded--she has put down for some years in Centennial, Wyo., a microscopic settlement west of Laramie at the foot of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Just outside town there's a sign that claims the place has pop. 100. That estimate might be a little steep...
...more nutritious than the commercially grown variety. Nettles, for example, have 40 times more iron than a greenhouse-grown cabbage lettuce, 30 times more vitamin C and 20 times more pro-vitamin A. You may be wondering how anybody could eat nettles. Try this for a healthy salad: steep nettles in cold water for 15 minutes, dry, and mix with a simple dressing made of yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt and pepper. It's tasty, crunchy - and doesn't sting...
...basics about the cooking. The tandoori jhinga?four colossal marinated prawns flavored with yogurt, red chilies, turmeric and garam masala?is sensational. And the sikandari raan, a whole leg of spring lamb soaked in vinegar, cinnamon and cumin and cooked in the tandoor, is irresistibly succulent. Prices are steep for India: a meal for two will cost at least $80. But in a land of conformity, there's little to beat Bukhara's oasis of the extraordinary. Call (91-11) 2611 2233 for reservations...
...still, $35,000 a year to wax eloquent at 15-minute interviews and to recognize the order of silverware (which every self-respecting child of the ’90s should know from Pretty Woman anyway) seems a smidgeon too steep. And was this grad just being facetious? Or do our four years here teach us, in addition to reading critically and coming up with two-minute soundbytes in sections, to be functioning, socialized adults in a certain stratum of plum society...