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...intestines) and fish-head curry (self-explanatory), come from scraps. I am struck by the American aversion to eating internal organs or to dishes which too closely resemble the animal that bore them. It sometimes strikes me as disguised snobbery. Land of plenty, no need to eat the cheap parts--let's stigmatize all those poor people who have to. I wonder about the way people mock chitlin-eating: is it a disguised middle-class attack on the lower classes...
Closely packed multi-family dwellings are one of the neighborhood's most distinct features. Cheap, small wooden homes were first built about a century and a half ago near the factories to house European immigrant workers...
...Early on the U.S. trailed way behind Europe in making these things cheap because the federal government got so caught up in regulating cell phones," says TIME business editor William Saporito. "But consumers know what's going on in Europe and they've demanded lower prices, and the market responded. The big issues right now are standards and geography. The first question cell phone users ask is 'Can I take it everywhere?'" To give them the answer they want to hear, cell phone providers are in a mad dash to provide service to more and more corners of the nation...
...fall of 1988. The candidate was in his pork rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of good-natured political slumming. He sang along to country music. In every public square, he hammered away at big, cheap themes: 1) Willie Horton, the Black Monster on Furlough; 2) Read My Lips, No New Taxes; and 3) Uncouth Radicals Want to Burn Your Flag...
DRINKS ON YOU Thinking about bartending school? Here's a cheap way to train: Last Call, a new CD-ROM game from Simon & Schuster Interactive ($20). Players must learn to mix from memory the more than 70 drinks featured in the game and deliver service with style (think Tom Cruise in Cocktail), all while maintaining the proper mood music and bouncing troublemakers. Those who earn the most in tips win the game. And here's a nice surprise: unlike most computer games, this one's a hybrid, meaning it'll run on either a Windows PC or a MacIntosh...