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...this young Palestinian hurled a molotov cocktail into an alley in Ramallah; whether there were victims of this particular assault is uncertain, but by mid-November the death toll had climbed to 270, most of them Palestinians. The three participants in the earlier U.S. meeting found themselves caught in various binds: President Bill Clinton was desperate for a large foreign policy victory to burnish his legacy but had a very short deadline; Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who had sacrificed his coalition government when he sat down with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in July, was forced to hang tough against...
...reseller of genetic information, Gene Logic offers as its main product the GeneExpress reference database, which shows which genes are over- or under-expressed in various diseases ranging from heart failure to cancer. Gene Logic gathers and packages the data and sells it to biotech and pharmaceutical companies...
...whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income-support check. When she visited the U.S. and Canada in October...
...Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp), who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways...
Next, I embarked on a 24-hour cinnamon-bun-baking marathon, blending some 11 cups of flour, six cups of sugar, a pound of butter and various other ingredients into an array of sweet treats. Martha Stewart's maddeningly precise and time-consuming recipe almost drove me to the pop-open cans, while AllRecipes' obtuse instructions and cake-mix ingredients struck me as suspect. I liked Epicurious' tip for using a sandwich bag with a hole in the bottom corner to drizzle on glaze like a pro, and found cooking.com's guidelines to be the most straightforward...