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Rice paper flowers make enthralling sight
When Jackie Sonnier Hirshberg invited me to visit the two-acre wooded garden cultivated by her, her mother Martha Sonnier and their second-generation gardener, Carl Dugas, I knew I would be seeing 450 mature camellia japonicas at the height of their bloom, and I knew that the multitudes of fabled orchids hanging from trees would be opening.

Tonight: Rice Paper Scissors Spars with Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel
Misha Tsukerman, via Rice Paper Scissors Anthony Bourdain loves to come to San Francisco on a travel show budget, make fun of its citizens for being snobby, weirdo hippies, and then declare he loves i

Rice professor's nanotube theory confirmed
( Rice University ) The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube growth: That the chirality of a nanotube controls the speed of its growth, and that armchair nanotubes should grow the fastest.

Economic Barometers: Rice, Gigi, LPG
MANILA, Philippines — One of the most memorable political statements of the 1986 Snap Election campaign was populist opposition candidate Cory Aquino’s lament that: “Ang galunggong po ay dose pesos na ang isang kilo. Sobra na, tama na, palitan na.”

JazzCat
Bean cuisine: The edamame and tomago share plate. Takoyaki: That's octopus balls to you - with rice paper rolls. Simple pleasure: JazzCat's decor is subtle and welcoming.

Make these easy spring rolls at home
These spring rolls in rice-paper wrappers are filled with smoked salmon, tender-crisp asparagus and plenty of fresh herbs.

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom
Rice University graduate student Shuzhen Ye used an ultraviolet laser to create a Rydberg atom in order to study the orbital mechanics of electrons. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University.

Body recovered from Rice Lake identified
Stearns County sheriff's officials say the ATV operator whose body was found in Rice Lake was a Paynesville man.

Research at Rice University leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing
( Rice University ) Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and noninvasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems.