Word: wintered
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...winter drags on, specialty apples will get harder to find in most stores, so if you want to try one, act soon. You may not get another bite at the apple this season...
...warming up to ice wine. Meant to accompany pungent cheeses, foie gras and desserts, ice wine derives its name not from its serving temperature (chilled) but from the unusual way the grapes are harvested and processed. They are picked and pressed while frozen solid, in the dead of winter. The result is a wine with an intense flavor--sweet, like Sauternes, but tangy. "I love these wines," says Andrea Immer, author of Great Tastes Made Simple. "They're a spark plug for the mouth." Ice wines originated in the 1790s when workers in the Franconian region of Germany tried...
...WINTER AFTER THE ELECTION, and the President's numbers are dropping. We're talking, of course, about President Josiah Bartlet, whose show, The West Wing, down in the ratings this season, probably seemed like a better candidate for cloning when Mister Sterling was conceived. Sterling (NBC, Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.), from ex--West Wing producer Lawrence O'Donnell, stars Josh Brolin as a political naif appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat. Populated with more straw men than an Iowa cornfield--sleazy lobbyists, nosy reporters, cynical legislators--Sterling plays safely down the political middle, making its stiff title character...
...formidable foes were awaiting Adams House residents when they returned from their winter breaks: reading period and mice. Many students living in entryways A and B of the House found that the creatures were indeed stirring, in their hallways and under their beds...
...mice began to infest Adams House about a month ago, when the weather turned cold and snowy, but complaints of mice have intensified substantially since winter break, according to Sean Palfrey...