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Dozens of younger colleagues remember him as a kindly teacher who showed them the ropes about everything from how to write a lead paragraph (taut and lean) to where to find the world's greatest tomato soup (New Delhi's Ashok Hotel). "When I came here in 1971," says editor at large Strobe Talbott, "Bill made a point of guiding me through the mysteries of the place. He had a mentor quality that was very comforting...
...they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already eaten in other foods, and if they don't have new allergenic substances added (like peanut oil, which is deadly to some people). One of the first products likely to hit the market is a tomato in which the gene that produces a rot-inducing enzyme has been deactivated. Another is a potato in which an enzyme that promotes bruising has been removed...
Shlain's collection of anecdotes covers all the bases. It's just like that tomato sauce commercial: Stories about Charlie Finley's A's? It's in there. A funny Tommy Lasorda tale? It's in there. Goose Gossage's thoughts before getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to Graig Nettles, sealing the Red Sox's fate in 1978 (and thrilling this seven-year-old Yankee fan)? You guessed...
...prove to be a lifesaver for agoraphobiacs and those simply daunted by the quest for the perfect ripe tomato. ScanFone, a high-tech home-shopping and bill-paying system, is designed primarily for ordinary grocery shoppers too busy to get to the store. Introduced last week in San Francisco by Virginia- based US Order, ScanFone allows Bay Area customers to pay bills and buy their groceries using a special Touch-Tone phone, a bar-code scanner and a 6,000-item catalog from Safeway. Unlike some predecessors, including a discontinued supermarket shopping system introduced by the home-computer information network...
...With Lettuce and Tomato) is born, with a 500 watt transmitter on top of a white tableclothed booth. Before 1926 is over, the station is a big hit. It's trash-Miss Stephanie and Her All-Boy Autoharp bands and Uncle Albert's poetry-but it's trash that the people love...