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...Breakfast. Again, the decadence is in the preparation. First, the survey of goods: oranges, pears, eggs, various kinds of cheese and sausage, two kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar, appropriate spices, pots and pans of all sizes and appropriate machinery. Second, the slow and deliberate assembly (see #4). Finally, the open-ended consumption of the meal: half-an-omelette, walk the dog, read the paper, crepe, bubble bath, write a paper, walk the dog, hot chocolate with steamed milk, write column...
...their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair. "The only thing I could do was back up," he says. He eventually used the fuel mixture to launch...
...shaped them and made them presentable for a mass audience that suckled on the television tube. No TV show in Britain (let alone America) would have embraced the leather-clad Beatles. The foppish suits and Olde World charm of that little bow at the end of each set sugar-coated the Beatles' jagged pill and made them irresistible...
Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...
...network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick...