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Cocktail of the Month | The Manhattan Project

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I love a Manhattan, it seems that al l the different bars, restaurants and regions each have their own variations on a theme and here is mine.  After years of brutal research, forcing myself to imbibe a few thousand, I have found the jet fuel that rockets me into orbit. 
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The Dirt | Drugstore Dahlia

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A few years ago, a Day-Glo pink dahlia called to me from outside my local drugstore where it sat next to the dollar item sale table. I tried to resist its siren call, thinking it fancy but not particularly fine.
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My First Job | Engineering intern on the Great Highway

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I was an interning Engineer on the Great Highway in San Francisco when I was eighteen years old. I had just completed my first year of Civil Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, and donning boots and a hard hat was a welcome change to my word processing job that required typing 80 words a minute.