Word: specialize
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Many gourmet loaves are made from old French, Italian and German recipes. Some are prepared with special starters: live cultures handed down from one generation to the next, lending a distinctive flavor to the dough. Unlike many commercial varieties, these loaves are the product of a laborious, often round-the-clock regimen, performed in fiery hot bakeshops. In a typical routine, first the dough is mixed and allowed to rise, then cut into pieces, allowed to rise again, molded into final form, "proofed" in one last rising, baked and cooled. (Commercial breads may sit through only one or two short...
...younger breed of breadmaker is bringing an almost fanatical dedication to baking. Many of these bakers are importing special stone-lined ovens, which cost up to $80,000, from France. Helmut Goetting, who holds a Ph.D. in geology, and Paul Fitzpatrick, a chemist, built a wood-burning stove and hired a German Backermeister for their Wood-Fire Bakery in Mountain View, Calif...
...last year instituted a monthly one-week recess that members can devote to fund raising. Of the 31 Senators seeking re-election this year, 17 will raise more money from out-of-state contributors than they do from their own constituents. A growing share of the booty flows from special-interest groups whose goal is to trade cash for influence on Capitol Hill...
...where you went to school. To The Club, Harvard isn't just postsecondary education. It is an institution that trains the elite to run the country, and in the process, helps willing hands slip into the white gloves of proper society. Harvard takes that special pool of talent, enhances it through association and, upon completion, yields up its Harvard men and women--sealed and stamped with the hallowed...
...take the Bible back from those who would use it as a club: that is Hartman's mission. Ironically, had the great nation-building Labor Party leaders better appreciated what makes Israel special, Hartman's mission might not have been necessary. "Our founders saw religion as the enemy of progress," says Hartman. "They wanted to create an indigenous, secular Israeli. Religious concerns were ceded to the ultra-orthodox, who have never understood the need for Judaism to incorporate democratic values." Because Israeli society failed to develop a compelling spiritual option to replace the victim-oriented philosophy of the East European...