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Buy it	A gourmet meal doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. For the cost of burgers out, you can dine on filet mignon at home. The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook shows the way. Recipes simple enough they are a joy to cook, and tasty enough they are a joy to eat. Whether it’s an intimate dinner for two, or having the boss over for the first time, you’ll be proud to serve from The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook. Enjoy restaurant quality meals without the quality restaurant prices. For the cost of tax, tip, and parking: home cooking with The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook puts dinner on your table. With steps like “open beer, drink half,” The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook puts fun back in the kitchen. Enjoy serving a epicurean delight, and keep the change.
No contact with the alien ship parked in earth orbit—an astronaut team discovers why. Its crew died in transit. Exposed to whatever killed them and coming down with something, would you let the astronauts come home? Quarantined and running out of air, would they share your feelings? Follow Col. Rex Stone and Dr. Dawn Thomas from remote observation aboard the International Space Station to direct exploration inside the alien craft. Join them as they learn about the alien's world--an earth-like liquid planet of alpha centuri.		Buy it
On-line Articles	The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook Excerpt Potatoes—The Inca’s Gift to the World Counterfeit Veal Smoked Turkey Beer Can Chicken Indoors Charles Darwin Heddy Lemarr, Inventor In Defense of CO2
Short Stories	"Water Wars" The Journal of the Blue Planet June 2002 describes an encounter with Carl Scarlak, the crazy neighbor everyone has. Read it.  "The First Page" The Great Blue Beacon June 2002, a sermon about the most important page. Read it.  “Stormy Weather” The Journal of the Blue Planet February 2003 is a Valentine’s love story. Read it.  “Love Letter” The Journal of the Blue Planet February 2003 is a short, dark mystery. Read it.
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	The Center for Disease Control detects the outbreak of a strange fatal disease; their computers identify it as pulmonary anthrax. The epicenter near the historical center of US biological weapons implicates the Army. This Utah flu can't be anthrax, the Army contends…and if it is, it isn't ours. CDC’s Dr. Jack Reagan and the Army’s Lt.Col. Uma Hees track the epidemic to a zealot with a history of violence in Latin political causes. Sick with the disease, he infected fellow passengers on flights from Barcelona to New York, then on to Salt Lake City and San Diego. Jack and Uma must determine whether he is an innocent victim or a kamikaze for Basque terrorists – whether the epidemic is natural or the first wave of an attack.
	Dolphins: the other Earthlings! What do their scientists want to know about you? What lengths will they go to for the answers? "Fish Story" is a role reversal adventure of people kept by dolphins. It is the story of people kept in their laboratories, of people kept in their zoos, and of people kept in their backyards. Explore the dolphin's hypothetical society against the background of the real ocean. Exotic plants and animals flourish in the dark depths. Wrecks of human ships dot an alien landscape of active volcanoes and strange geology.
	… not with a bang, with a whimper, T. S. Elliot was right! In "With a Whimper" politics and personalities limit human response to a new environmental hazard, a novel life form with no natural enemies. Its wastes have devastated the North Atlantic. New York City fell first; New Jersey, New England and old England followed. EPA responds with a crash program. Politics and personalities deliver too little too late. The pollutant takes the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake, and accelerates. A new administration is reluctant to address the problem at first. They’ll make it a priority in the next fiscal year – there won’t be anymore next fiscal years!