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...Combine egg yolk, mayonaise, mustard, paprika. Mush well...
...Fill albumen cave with mayonaise-egg mixture...
Race talk as bonding mechanism is powerfully on display in American literature. When Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby leaves West Egg to dine in fashionable East Egg, his host conducts a kind of class audition into WASP-dom by soliciting Nick's support for the "science" of racism. "If we don't look out the white race will be . . . utterly submerged," he says. "It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." It makes Nick uneasy, but he does not question or refute his host's convictions...
Unfortunately, the hype was mixed with a good deal of confusion. The scientists in question had not succeeded in mass-producing viable embryos from a single embryo's DNA, as the Times suggested. Their experiment, in fact, was remarkably simple. Using an abnormally fertilized egg which had begun the normal process of development by dividing into two cells, they simply separated the cells and allowed each to develop on its own. In effect, the scientists reproduced the process which, in the womb, leads to the development of identical twins...
...version of Breakfast at Tiffany's was a seminal part of my childhood too. Small wonder that as a married man, I have succumbed to the lure of shopping at Tiffany. I know the manly power that comes with presenting a birthday gift encased in that trademark robin's-egg-blue Tiffany box. The jewelry itself is almost beside the point; the symbolism is all in the blue box that proclaims, "I shop with the wealthy. I can afford to pay retail...