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...always evident that the Gulf of Mexico was a sweet spot for cyclones, but it took modern meteorology to explain just why. You need a lot of things to get a hurricane going, most important among them an existing storm with a bit of spin to it wedged between warm ocean water and a colder band of air above it. Locate all that at least 300 miles north or south of the equator--where the rotation of the Earth's slightly narrower circumference exacerbates the spin of the storm--and you have everything you need to sustain a hurricane...
...dried chilhuacle chilis (optional) 8 dried mulato chilis 8 dried pasilla mexicano chilis 3 tsp. lard (or olive oil) 1/4 cup almonds 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup shelled pumpkin seeds 1/4 cup shelled pecans 1/4 cup shelled peanuts 4 slices of egg bread or other semi-sweet bread, torn into pieces 1/4 cup sesame seeds 1/3 tsp thyme 1/3 tsp marjoram 1/3 tsp oregano 4 avocado leaves 2 cinnamon sticks 1/8 tsp anise 3 whole cloves 1/8 tsp cumin 3 whole black peppercorns 1 tomato, roasted 3 tomatillos, roasted 3 cloves of peeled garlic, roasted 1/2 medium peeled onion, roasted...
...labor camps without due process of law. People are not allowed to organize political parties, and the communist Chinese government, for fear of being toppled, has strict control of the mass media. Thus the Chinese people are blindfolded. Timothy Ho Anaheim, California, U.S. The Price Isn't Right Re "Sweet 16 and spoiled rotten" [April 24]: I agree with columnist Ana Marie Cox that mtv's reality show My Super Sweet 16 verges on the nauseating. It is nearly unbearable to witness the whining of greedy teenage girls while their fathers cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...young adult audience” are headed in. Formerly, the presence of pre-college woes as a theme in writing for the 14-and-up set was limited to a casual inquiry: How long will it take us to drive our brand-new Jeep from Sweet Valley High School to Sweet Valley University? Other installment series feature girls who seem eternally trapped in ninth grade—there is no sense of linear time, but there are a whole lot of winter semi-formals. The success of McCafferty’s three Jessica Darling novels has proven that...
...Goldstein was equally impressive as Marianne. The role required her to shift between being a naïve schoolgirl and a jailbaiting temptress, and she did so seamlessly. She even demonstrated formidable hip-hop chops during the musical’s zany rap interludes. Goldstein’s saccharine sweet voice was oddly matched to the Lil’ Kim worthy lyrics she was required to recite, but “Maude and Harold” was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never...