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More offal! All right! That's what America needs more of. At least, that's what a certain strata of Americans do; another strata is hoping to buy less offal, especially in their hamburgers. They have more offal than they can handle; what they want are some of the prime rib, tenderloin and lamb racks that urban gastronomes are so over. The red state-blue state dichotomy has been laughably overdrawn, but the difference between the cutthroat race to the bottom in the fast-food business and the high-end preoccupations with cooking offal and arranging entrees with tweezers could...
...digs around Jerusalem, an IAA archaeologist is always on-site to analyze findings. Dorfman concedes that the settler organization's interpretation of its findings in Silwan "is different from ours." He adds: "They emphasize only the Jewish heritage." Sometimes, according to archaeologist Mizrahi, the Elad-sponsored digs ignore other strata of Jerusalem's multi-cultural history. "They're only focusing on one tradition - the Jewish one," he says...
...class. When he recently applied for a mortgage to buy a new house in a safer neighborhood, he says he was offered an exorbitant interest rate, set largely by the government, because of his economic status. "I came out with the impression that they give priority to the lower strata," he says. It's admirable to boost the poor, who before Chávez were largely ignored by Venezuela's élite. But Flerida Rengifo, a demographics analyst at the Central University, says stories of the Venezuelan middle-class brain drain are getting more common. "There's no support...
...Pinocchio and Jesus. Plus the old Philip K. Dick premise of a man who doesn't know he's a cyborg, that Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg borrowed for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and which showed up this year in Moon and Surrogates. Plus the literal underclass and upper-class strata of WALL•E. And not to forget the bereft father, twisted by family tragedy, from last week's Law Abiding Citizen. "If you lose your son like this," a fellow scientist tells Dr. Tenma, "and you don't go crazy, you're not a human being." Tenma doesn...
...want to understand the impact Sheila Lukins had on American cooking, start with her breakfast strata. Usually made from little more than dull layers of bread, cheese and eggs, in Lukins' hands the dish became a bold delicacy with prosciutto, arugula and pesto. The fact that her recipes contained ingredients most Americans had never heard of in the 1980s hardly mattered. Lukins, who died Aug. 30 of brain cancer at age 66, knew how to make things taste good...