Alaska Indulgence Links

Deep-fried fair food so good -- and bad

As the Alaska State Fair drew near this year, the usual food fantasies took hold. But then, from some mean part of my brain, a dangerous question snaked its way through: Just what would a belly full of all that actually do to me, diet-wise?

America's Best Ice Cream Parlors

Brown bread molasses and salted butterscotch. Cheese-course duo and bananas Foster. Yellow-cake batter and avocado-honey-orange. These are just a few of the signature flavors scooped out by America's top ice cream parlors. Here, we identify one great ice cream shop in each state and the District of Columbia, picked by experts for a cool end-of-summer treat. Ice cream - Home - Cooking - Baking ...

This is a Lecture On Education

Published on October 14, 1988 by William A. Lecture #172

GOP watch: All the Right Moves

E.J. Dionne examines the Republican Party’s hard move to the right. “Republicans are in the midst of an insurrection. Democrats are not.

Out of Our Past

25 years ago today, 1985: The Reagan administration Wednesday accused the Soviet Union of using a special chemical dust to spy on American diplomats in Moscow. The Soviets' use of chemical powders to track American diplomats is a new twist to a time-honored tradition of keeping tabs on spies, say those familiar with the world of espionage. The chemical dust, called nitrophenylpentadiene, is ...