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...prepare her favorite appetizer, Susan Maurer fills won ton wrappers with goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, cilantro and some chili fried in peanut oil. "It's fast to do Asian things," says Maurer, a Berkeley travel agent. It does not occur to her that in her Asian "thing" Maurer envelops influences that reach from the Rio Grande to the Mediterranean. Call it Chinese ravioli, Italian won ton or Mexican kreplach, the result is a wholly new, wholly American creation...
...christened Alcyone, after the daughter of the Greek god of wind, but the ancient Greeks never saw her like. The sailing ship harnesses the wind with a superefficient system of cylindrical aluminum "turbo sails." The 72- ton vessel also has engines and was developed by Neptune's modern descendant, Jacques Cousteau, and two other French designers who hoped to show that the sails could save some conventional ships up to 35% on fuel bills. Setting out on her maiden voyage from France five weeks ago, the ship made stops in the ! Azores and Bermuda before arriving last week...
...author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country. She sleeps in truck stops because they are safe and coffee is always available...
...face of furious criticism and ridicule, Philadelphia proved through the week that it has a thick skin. It showed, as well, remarkable powers of recuperation. The community rallied with a dramatic outpouring of spirit and resources for the fire victims. Food and clothing by the ton poured into churches and collection centers. Department stores handed out vouchers that amounted to gift certificates. Supermarkets, restaurants and private citizens came forth with everything from fried chicken to pizza. One anonymous donor sent $100,000 to St. Carthage Church for its homeless "to rekindle their hopes." Developers were already drawing up plans...
...small town 25 miles to the south, stopped a Winnebago for a minor traffic violation and discovered 2,094 lbs. of marijuana inside. But that was only an hors d'oeuvre. Before long a second Winnebago was stopped. Inside were 31 duffel bags stuffed with more than a ton of cocaine, a record haul for town police. Admiring colleagues at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington noted that the two tons of cocaine seized in one day, with a total value of more than $1 billion, compared quite favorably with the total of twelve tons captured...