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...evidence, check out the wall-to-wall patrons (Asian and non-Asian alike) enjoying dim sum, from chicken feet to coconut cake, at Ocean Palace, a cavernous banquet hall in the Bellaire neighborhood at the western end of Houston's Chinatown. The steamed buns filled with barbecued pork are as light as clouds; slivers of custard-soft tofu are immersed in a light ginger syrup; and the chili oil at every table is made by the chef. Waiters cruise the place with carts of delicacies; just point to the ones you want...
...both. Like the fast-food business, the underground economy has ballooned over the past 30 years, to about $1 trillion, and Schlosser aims to find out why. He's hunting big conceptual game here, nothing less than America's troubled, hypocritical soul. "If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes," he writes, "then the secret ones are just as important as the ones openly displayed...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Adoor can talk that way because he's had perhaps the most critically impressive career of any Indian director since pioneer Satyajit Ray. He'll give you his résumé if you ask him - and even if you don't. His career path serves as a reminder that art and commerce are often at odds, and frequently mutually exclusive...
Hofmann says that knowledge of this “sum total” is necessary to study of all the genes in an organism, called genomics...
...only looked at a single gene, you wouldn’t get the sum total of what’s going on in the fish to help make the transition,” says Garwin...