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...improved transportation networks and freer international trade enabled trading companies to begin sourcing supplies and products from Korea, Indonesia, India--wherever they could get the best price and quality. Victor Fung, Li & Fung's group chairman, says his firm had hit on the "idea that you can take work apart and allocate it to other parts of the world. We took the whole thing and disaggregated...
...that algae is in vogue: Ferran Adri?, the founding genius of the new conceptual movement among chefs, wrapped a crab torso in it. Angel Leon, used it to clarify stock. And at the Porto Mui?os booth in the exhibition hall, the lechugas del mar sold like- well, hotcakes. But apart from a predominance of sea vegetables, it was hard to detect clear trends at Madrid Fusion. As some of the world's top chefs gathered to show off their stuff, the first signs of introspection, if not outright doubt, were beginning to appear in the world of contemporary gastronomy...
...would have been no less brutal if done "differently." There is no dignity at the end of a rope at any time. Standing defiantly in the wreckage they have brought about, President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair--through their actions and inaction, words and silence--stand not apart from but shoulder to shoulder with barbarity...
Specialized neurons are being found that allow us to mirror the behavior of people around us, helping us learn such primal skills as walking and eating as well as how to become social, ethical beings. The mystery of memory is being teased apart, exposing the way we store facts and experiences in addition to the emotional flavors associated with them. Magnetic resonance imaging is probing the brain as it operates, essentially--if crudely--reading our minds, and raising all the attendant ethical questions...
...Alllooksame.com: So you say you’re not a racist? Test your ability to tell Asians apart with this online quiz...