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...England style” calamari, coated in a cornmeal batter and served over a bed of spinach leaves with diced tomatoes and piquant pepperoncini ($7.95), was a substantial and successful appetizer. The richness of the fried squid contrasted with the sweet taste of the tomatoes and the zip provided by the hot peppers to enliven a dish that can often, when handled less sensitively, become cloyingly repetitive...
...America's most promising gizmos--robots that can crawl from building to building, miniature drones that can spy around corners, acoustic sensors capable of taking out snipers--are still unproven. The hottest "new" technology at last month's war game: John Deere two-seat Gator tractors, which can zip through narrow passageways bringing ammo and supplies to the front and returning with casualties...
...kilometer spine. Most of them have erupted in the past century or two. The surrounding seabed is crosshatched with fault lines. Maumere, in the local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation and Beelzebub. They add to the sense of impending doom...
Iomega unveiled its 750-MB Zip drive ($180) last week. It's 2 1/2 times as fast as its predecessor and has three times the storage space. It can read older discs and is a cinch to use. Since Zips first appeared, though, the rewritable CD (CDRW) and external hard drive have moved into Zip's territory. Do you need the 750? Depends on how much you love the format. CDRW drives can be bought for half the price, and the discs offer nearly as much storage space (up to 700 MB) for a fraction of the cost (80[cents...
...Election Day humiliation for the President on his home turf. Some polls this summer have given Kirk an edge, and all show an extremely tight race. He has mobilized heavy political backing from Dallas' conservative business elite and raised more money than Cornyn in Bush's old Dallas ZIP code. One contributor is Bush's own media consultant, Mark McKinnon, who counts Kirk among his former clients...