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When the congressional conferees met to work out a consensus on the continuing resolution, the "compromise" between the House's $5.4 billion program and the Senate's $1.2 billion program turned out to be a Reagan-pleasing goose egg. Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts put the matter bluntly to Democratic Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi. Said Conte: "Christ, Jamie, why make us go through this? We'll just get a veto and be right back here." At a private conference that evening, the Democrats decided it was futile to provoke a confrontation that would close down...
Robert Sinderbrand, M.D. Egg Harbor...
...immediate medical applications, there is little doubt that the new technique for gene transfer will shed some light on certain inherited disorders. "In a sense," says Palmiter, "the big mice are models of pituitary giantism in humans." It may also help scientists unravel the mysteries of how a fertilized egg becomes a living organism and how gene regulation goes awry in cancer. Concludes Brinster: "This study provides another system in which we can examine the regulation and control of genes, and that is one of the most important issues in biology...
...says Drexel Burnham's Greditor. "Is pizza a fad?" Says William Trainer, a restaurant analyst for Merrill Lynch: "I think Mexican restaurants have lots of room to grow." Regardless, the onrushing Mexican-food chains have already made tostadas, burritos and the like as familiar and as American as egg foo yung. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Sheila Gribben/Chicago and Janice C. Simpson/New York
...sauce ("it will not taste like a Hershey bar," the author assures) and rabbit with almonds and pine nuts. Next to its architecture, Spain's desserts remain the principal testimony to the country's 400-year occupation by the Moors. As they are in North Africa, almonds, egg yolks and honey are the major ingredients of most sweets; regional specialties, however, feature a delicious 16th century cheesecake, rich custards like tocino del cielo (literally, fat from heaven) and some memorable fruit flans, including a luscious apple tart with custard and apple-jelly topping. Que aproveche! Good eating...