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...Princeton undergraduate—reported the offense at 6 a.m. on Sunday. He claimed the perpetrators “gained entry to his room by kicking in a bottom door panel,” according to a police log entry from the Princeton University Department of Public Safety. Both vodka and a social security card were reportedly stolen...
...CURSES AT HIM. WERE YOU REALLY THAT MEAN TO HIM BACK THEN? Yes. But I don't dislike him and was nice to him at times. I can't think of any specific instances, but back in those days I was doing a lot of cocaine and drinking vodka, so if I was ever nice to him, I don't remember. But I'm sure...
...Russian factions: the Wahhabis and those aligned with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen President overthrown by the Russians in 2000. Jamal knows he can trust the non-Wahhabi resistance not to betray him. But Maskhadov's men emphasize their disdain for the Wahhabi prohibition on alcohol and tobacco by drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes as Jamal talks. In late August, when guerrillas cordoned off parts of Grozny and killed at least 50 officials and paramilitaries associated with the Kremlin-backed government, Jamal's men were in the thick of things. His men are mostly in their twenties, unemployed and poorly educated...
...Thanks in part to an explosion of new flavored vodkas, U.S. consumption of the liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation?and woo vodka drinkers. Among the new brews...
...that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and cilantro. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-- scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber and honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers say Patterson is breaking new ground in the way he employs scent to amplify flavor. "Aroma really is the most central part of how we experience food," says Patterson, who has co-written a new book on the subject aptly...