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...selection made our morning tense and our time precious--six ice cream appointments in a four-hour period gave us little time to dawdle over our plastic spoons and paper dishes. Notebooks in hands and hair dripping, we scanned the atmosphere, checked the prices and tasted the wares: Chocolate, Vanilla and one or more of the stores' speciality flavors...
...addition to our usual Chocolate and Vanilla, Herrell's gave us Chocolate Pudding, Espresso and Malted Vanilla. The Chocolate was rich and sweet, the Vanilla creamy. Chocolate Pudding was extremely rich--a scoop of this was not too different from a scoop of chocolate icing. And the Malted Vanilla won points for originality and tastiness from malt ball fans. The espresso was a bit more bitter than regular coffee ice cream and left an aftertaste...
...shop offers "smoosh-ins" of candy andcookies, and a companion cafe also sellshamburgers and bagels. In addition to chocolateand vanilla, we tasted Coffee Mud Pie, PeppermintChocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough...
Ronald Dunham -- street name Strike -- is their foreman. Or scoutmaster, or baby-sitter; one of his clockers, Horace, 13, spends his time leafing wistfully through a catalog of kids' toys. Strike is only 19 himself, a scrawny fellow with a stutter and a bleeding ulcer that he treats with vanilla Yoo-Hoo. But he's smart; smart enough to know not to wear gold, not to trust anyone, not to get greedy and not to do product, because cocaine messes you up. He has $21,000 in cash stored around town, and he tells himself that this is his leaving...
Much of the debate in presummit meetings centered on the issue of who owns and controls the genetic information stored in those species. Traditionally, the benefits that come from genetic materials -- seeds, specimens or drugs derived from plants and animals -- go to whoever finds a way to exploit them. Vanilla, for example, was a biological resource found only in Central America. It later became an important cash crop in Madagascar. Now a U.S. biotech company has developed a process to clone the vanilla flavor in a cell culture. If the firm sells the bioengineered version for less than natural vanilla...