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January 16, 1997
News & Stories
Balboa Park museums do surgery on masterpieces
Stinky cheese and stinky feet
Dear Matt: Why do some cheeses smell like people’s feet and vice versa? 2. Who deduced that the extract from a sheep’s stomach was the missing essential ingredient for cheese making? — Curious, North Park …
January 16, 1997
Microwave takes double the time as conventional
Mattman: How come when I put two potatoes in my microwave it takes twice as long to cook them as to cook one? When I put two potatoes in my conventional oven, it doesn’t take …
January 16, 1997
Blowing really does cool off your soup
Dear Mr. Alice: I was contemplating a hot bowl of soup the other day, eager to eat but reluctant to burn my tongue. So of course, I scooped up a spoonful, blew on it a …
January 16, 1997
The rhino as fire marshall
Matmail: This weekend we rented the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy. In this film the rhinoceros is depicted as being the “self-appointed fire marshal of the veldt,” and one is actually seen stamping …
January 16, 1997
Hamels of Mission Beach mad at city, ready to quit
The Hamels are ready to call it quits. After 30 years of running their sportswear and bike rental emporium at the foot of Ventura Place in Mission Beach, brothers Dan and Ray Hamel want to …
January 16, 1997
Uninsured and sick in San Diego
Last time I saw Sara Gagliardi, she was bent double. Sweat poured off her brow. She was in pain. She limped to the back of the health food store where she was working and sat …
January 16, 1997
Nackey Scripps Loeb grew up on E.W. Scripps' sprawling Miramar Ranch
The story of ex-Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rocky Bleier's cross-country fight with ex-wife Aleta Whitaker over the $900,000 she says he owes her is front-page news in Pittsburgh. He says he can't afford to pay …
January 16, 1997
Coast to Coast in Kerouac's Time
Over lunch, Tony’s family debated the benefits of Chicago and San Diego. Mrs. Russo, Tony, and his sister preferred Chicago. Mr. Russo claimed he would have stayed out West except for the family’s nagging.
January 16, 1997