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...crisis, you don't rule out jobs that pay big bucks. The presentation didn't make management consulting seem like a particularly worthwhile endeavor, but the food most certainly did. They had the most delicious little breaded pieces of chicken with spicy hot sweet sauce, dumplings, green peppers, and raw carrots (my favorite...
...best selling point of the PowerPC is not its raw speed--after all, Digital Electric Corporation's Alpha can now run four times as fast, at 200MHz--but its promise to run a host of different operating systems. With backing from both Apple and IBM, PowerPC computers will be able to run programs written for the Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX and other platforms, although such compatibilities must be provided through software...
...Dipping raw oysters in Louisiana hot sauce may be frowned upon in fancy French restaurants, but it could keep an aficionado out of the hospital. In laboratory tests, the spicy flavoring killed four kinds of bacteria that can contaminate shellfish and that cause ailments ranging from mild diarrhea to potentially fatal blood poisoning...
...most important creative years of his life -- his books include Silence, M, Empty Words and X -- Cage extended his compositional processes to include other media. To satisfy his love of words, he invented "mesostics," in which a given piece of writing (Finnegans Wake was a favorite) serves as the raw material for a poem derived by finding and capitalizing the letters of the subject's name (James Joyce) according to strict rules, arranging the results and reading down. Thus...
...citizens of Queens are getting a raw deal," says Nell Parker, a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based Home Depot. She points out that most of the coalition members are hardware-store owners and only care about saving their own businesses. "People are paying expensive prices for building materials there." Counters Brian Herman, a lawyer and hardware-store owner involved with the coalition: "Everybody knows they're out to kill the little guy. That store changes the face of the economic ecosystem for the whole community...