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| THE current focus of leaders in Washington and Jerusalem on Iran has obscured the neardeath of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and the inevitable catastrophe toward which Israel is now moving.
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| AN EGG FOR BREAKFAST? |
| SUPERMARKET eggs gleam with apparent cleanliness, and nothing might seem more wholesome than breaking one of them into a frying pan. |
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 | The Avengers world is big & dark yet uplifting JOSS WHEDON, the creator of fantasy television series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, said: "Nobody's interested in making a living. They only want to make a fortune. Where are the '70s, where are people taking chances?" Whedon, 47, a rangy man with short brown hair and a....
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| | Why preschoolers get a mouthful of cavities | | IN the surgical wing of the Centre for Pediatric Dentistry at Seattle Children's Hospital, Devon Koester, was resting in his mother's arms as an anesthesiologist held a bubble-gum-scented mask over his face to put him under. The doctors then took Xrays, which showed that 11 of his 20 baby teeth had cavities. Then his pediatric dentist extracted two incisors, performed a root canal on a molar, and gave the rest fillings and crowns.
Devon's mother, Melody Koester, a homemaker from Stanwood, Washington, and her husband Matthew, an information technology manager, said they began worrying about brushing Devon's teeth only after Melody Koester noticed they were discoloured when he was 18 months old.
"I had a lot on my mind, and brushing his teeth was an extra thing I didn't think about at night," she said.
The number of preschoolers requiring extensive dental work suggests that many other parents make the same mistake. The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention noted an increase, the first in 40 years, in the number of preschoolers with cavities in a study five years ago. But dentists nationwide say they are seeing more preschoolers at all income levels with six to 10 cavities or more. The level of decay, they added, is so severe that they often recommend using general anesthesia because young children are unlikely to sit through such extensive procedures while they are awake.
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| | Polenta lasagna, buoyed by noodles | | SOME dishes come together as easily on the plate as they do in my head. I envision something and cook it for dinner, and the resulting recipe more or less matches what I craved.
Then there's polenta lasagna.
I got the idea to make it last winter, imagining something dense and richly flavoured, capped with a golden, bubbling layer of melted cheese.
Many recipes I've seen for polenta lasagna call for prepared polenta from a tube, which is then sliced and layered into a casserole dish with the usual trappings: tomato sauce, Parmesan, mozzarella and sometimes ricotta.
Essentially the polenta takes the place of the wide noodles, one carb as a substitute for another to bolster the gooey cheese, which is the point of eating lasagna in the first place.
Because I'm not a fan of polenta in a tube, I whipped up my own, enriching it with mascarpone and Parmesan.
To make the lasagna a onedish meal, I planned to add green vegetables into the mix.
Spinach is the easiest because it doesn't require separate cooking. I stirred some into the simmering polenta mixture.
Then I layered the mixture into a pan with sauce and cheese and baked it.
It was very good, in a soft, velvety, texturally uniform way. But it did not match the image in my head.
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| | Minaj wrests Billboard top slot from Madonna | | RAPPER Nicki Minaj shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart recently with her sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, usurping the crown from Madonna, who suffered the biggest second week sales drop in chart history.
Sales for Madonna's 12th studio album MDNA fell a staggering 86.7 percent to just 48,000 copies sold this week, dropping from number one to number eight on the chart.
The percentage drop in MDNA sales trumps Lady Gaga's 2011 album Born This Way, which fell from 1.1 million copies in its opening week to 174,000 in week two, an 84 percent decline.
Roman Reloaded is Minaj's second album to top the chart, selling 253,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan, despite receiving poor reviews from critics.
Madonna recently teamed up with Minaj on her Superbowl song Give Me All Your Luvin and another track on the MDNA album, and Minaj has openly revealed her admiration for the Queen of Pop, calling Madonna one of her inspirations.
Pop darling Adele's Grammy-sweeping album 21 returns to the number two spot on the chart, selling 153,000 copies in its 59th week. Total US sales of the album have surpassed eight million copies so far.
Country music band Rascal Flatts saw their 9th studio album, Changed, enter at number three with 130,000 copies, while newcomers Of Monsters and Men, a British folk-rock band, saw their debut album My Head is an Animal come in at number six with 55,000 copies.
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