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...extremely rare and cannot be cultivated. They also stir the hearts of many chefs and can cost a small fortune to purvey. If you want to see for yourself the land of the truffle hunter, then take a plane to the Italian region of Piedmont in the Langhe hills. Alba, a two-hour drive north from Milan, is considered the spiritual city of the treasure, and prime truffle time spans from November to Christmas...
...where cheese-shop windows display truffles the way that Harry Winston's shows off jewels--and the truffles are almost as expensive. You probably won't be buying any to take home because they get moldy rather fast. But you are here to eat as many as possible, and Alba is a good first stop...
...ECAC currently features three of the top four goaltenders in the country, according to two measures of backstopping prowess. Brown freshman Adam D’Alba and Harvard senior Dov Grumet-Morris are tied for first in the country in save percentage and third and fourth, respectively, in goals-against average (GAA). Cornell’s David McKee is tied for first in GAA, and ranks fourth in save percentage...Were the NCAA tournament to start today, three ECAC teams—Cornell, Harvard and Colgate—would qualify, according to the latest Pairwise Ranking, a projection that mirrors...
...save percentage ties him for second-best in the country with Cornell’s David McKee. The two trail only Brown’s Adam D’Alba, who has notched a .962 mark, though in five fewer games than either of his in-league counterparts...
...gossip. While wandering among the rubber-suited goths and picking through the Japanese toys your intrepid reporter unearthed a few interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented...