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...through Latin America. Many dishes are served on a block of translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...
...terrorism will take the U.S.-led coalition to some far-flung frontiers, but probably none more desolate than the southern shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Once a balmy oasis of apricot groves, fields of watermelon and rivers of fish so fat that each could feed a family, this is now a poisoned desert of salt and brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges...
...nothing Jay can’t do with a deck of cards. Jay proves that in an inspired second-act sequence in which he treats a deck of playing cards as deadly weapons to assault a wall, a plastic duck and, in a moment of delightfully frenzied lunacy, a watermelon...
...October is watermelon season, so the men buy armfuls of the melon to take home. Everywhere you look, everyone seems to be eating watermelon, scooping out the juicy flesh with eager fingers. The more fortunate also suck pomegranate seeds or lick Mars Bar wrappers tossed by foreign journalists who brought them from Dushanbe, the capital of neighboring Tajikistan...
...brother was finally crawling, but no faster than he could sit up. Mama had trained him to crawl all the way to the bathroom with an occasional pause to rest his arms on our soot-colored carpet. His head looked heavier than a watermelon; whenever he tried to raise it the whole thing wobbled. His arms were incredibly strong considering he still depended on Mama to change his diapers, put on his clothes and cut his food into tiny bits. Whenever she tried to let him eat by himself, mangled pieces of chicken would fall from his tiny mouth...