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...just fast turnover, small portions and cheaper cuts of meat that allow Choi to charge such low prices. "A Caesar salad at a lot of places is $12, but a Caesar salad costs $1.80 to make," he says, putting out a Marlboro. The insane markups come from a tired old formula, he continues: "Get a space in a high-rent district and hire [ultra-opulent interior architect] Adam Tihany to design it. It costs $1.5 [million] to $2 million for you to open a restaurant. So what's your attitude? 'We have to gouge those m____________.'"(Watch Roy Choi turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet On the Go: Good Food Goes Trucking | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...nearly two years, Google has been offering free accounts at google.com/health that allow users to store, organize and, should they choose to do so, share their health data with a doctor, family member or caregiver. Google Health won't say how many people have signed up (and neither will Microsoft HealthVault, which has a similar product). But it's starting to pick up on the business side.(See how not to get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paging Dr. Google | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Usually if a team plays zone, they’ll allow you to possess the ball,” Tillman said. “And it takes a lot of pressure off your defense so you can really control time of possession. If we have the ball for one or two minutes, that’s terrific...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tussle With Big Green Looms | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

With the move now seemingly definite, the MCZ staff is finalizing plans for the renovation and move of at least 10 million artifacts one tenth of a mile down the street—a move that will allow the MCZ to continue growing without worrying about the condition of its specimens...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...tell" law - only Congress can do that. But it did something that could be almost as important: it eased the enforcement of that law by loosening the regulations that have been used to snare 13,500 gays - and boot them out of uniform - since 1994. "These changes will allow us to execute the law in a fair and more appropriate manner," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. The revised regs "provide a greater measure of common sense and common decency to a process for handling what are difficult and complex issues for all involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enforcing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Don't Bother | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

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