A lifelong obsession with fortune cookies leads author Jennifer 8. Lee on a quest to discover much more than just a favorite childhood dessert. Less than five minutes after I enter the Harlem duplex of Jennifer 8. Lee, the well-known New York Times journalist and author offers me a bite to eat. “An expensive cookie from an expensive restaurant,” is how the gregarious 32-year-old introduces a ginger snap that has been left over from a jaunt to the glitzy Swedish-inspired eatery, Aquavit. Any more high-falutin' and the snack would be downright pretentious, but the fancy biscuit encased within the fancy box proves to be worth every penny. It's no surprise that it's tasty. Even if Scandinavian delights aren't Lee's main area of expertise, the ginger snaps are still apropos, considering that their Asian cousins have been on her mind for a good part of her life. As something of a cookie aficionado, Lee sampled hundreds while researching her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (Twelve; Marc...
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Etc. N. By Nathan S. Pfc. Edward Beaupre is on patrol in Iraq. Army Pfc. Edward Beaupre, 24, of North Brookfield, Mass., looked hard at it, concern and questions evident from his facial expression . Hey, Sergeant,” he called out to his team leader, Sgt. Chad Ward, 28, from Virginia Beach. “I’m not sure what this is, but it’s like it’s got something round in it. Sgt. Ward had already walked by it, and stopped now to look himself. You’re right. It’s a (155-mm) round,” Sgt. Ward tells Pfc. Beaupre — alarm, though just a hint, now in his voice. As a few yards of distance was covered between the round and the soldiers, Sgt. Ward sort of chuckled. He shrugged and smiled. The round — positioned as an IED, or improvised explosive device, might be — was unwired, with no pressure plates set for “victim-operated” detonation. To be clear, the soldiers were not in jeopardy. The soldiers behaved as if it were an IED, but that doesn’t mean it was one. Old ammunition is common in the farmlan...
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