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...make the frozen product, yogurt and stabilizers, plus any of dozens of flavors, are mixed in soft-ice cream machines (sales of which have been running 35% ahead of last year). Ten minutes later, a thick, soft, creamy swirl appears. Since the different brands-of yogurt that go into the machine vary greatly, so do the creamy swirls. Certain bacteria known as Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophi-lus are essential to the yogurt culture, yet there is no federal standard for the bacterial count. If the yogurt is pasteurized, as it sometimes is, the bacteria are killed. Freezing inhibits their...
Like Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision, Temple unleashes a torrent of arcane information. The reader must keep his bearings in a swirl of genuine astronomical mysteries, an thropological dates and the tricky cross currents of comparative mythology. The kernel of his thesis lies with the Dogon, an African tribe living in Mali. After studying their legends in the works of French anthropologists, Temple became convinced that the Dogon had precise knowledge of the star Sirius thousands of years before telescope technology revealed such information to astronomers...
Changing the Lock. In the swirl of last week's scandal, Wayne Hays was struggling to hold on to his chairmanships. Besides the Congressional Democratic Campaign Committee, he also heads the supremely important House Administration Committee. He has used that power to control pay raises for all congressional staff members and Congressmen's allowances for travel, telephone, postage and other items...
...were sitting at the edge of the floor marked off for a performance by Dance Collective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Our place was so close to the dancers that their energy caught us up confused in its swirl. "Why are these people doing such funny things?" I kept asking myself...
...husband are the first couple on the dance floor. The years between them add up to a tweedy century. They swirl in a self conscious foxtrot, counting every two beats as one. Their time is halved like this: for a few minutes they will dance absent-mindedly, staring in wonder at the crowd; then they will close their eyes, hug closer, and do a fair imitation of themselves thirty years earlier...