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...Some 7% of the houses scouted by the researchers had at least one visible display of affection, which the authors cataloged in the paper's most entertaining paragraph. There were six different ways fans expressed their feelings for Auburn football, they noted. They were: "1) flying an AU flag, 2) affixing an AU pom-pom on one's mailbox, 3) affixing an AU sticker on one's mailbox, 4) placing an AU sign in one's yard, 5) placing an AU windmill in one's yard" and, in words that, sadly, will likely never appear in an economics research paper...
...tourists and locals alike. But these days - with the euro still strong and economies seizing up around the globe - the foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement? - are also eating and drinking less than usual. "I've checked the accounts, and I know I'll make no profit this month," says Bonduel...
...locals alike. But these days - with the euro still relatively strong and economies seizing up around the globe - the foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the church of St. Sulpice in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement - are also eating and drinking less than usual. "I've checked the accounts," says Bonduel, "and I know I'll make no profit this month...
...preserving French cuisine can be interpreted to mean embalming Coq au Vin, cryofreezing Beef Bourgogne, and xenophobically protecting French gastronomy from any outside influence. But it can also, equally, mean protecting a craft, ensuring the transmission of the knowledge of French culinary techniques—Escoffier’s tricks for making stocks, the proper way to deglaze a pan—and saving endangered produce and small businesses from extinction. Since none of this year’s proposals has been revealed to the public yet, it is difficult to know the French’s exact intentions amidst...
East Asia's fledgling hip-hop scene could have asked for no better boost than the arrival of Jin Au-Yeung. The 26-year-old Chinese-American rapper relocated to Hong Kong from New York City this summer in a move either born of frustration at a flagging Stateside career or of a wish to connect more strongly with his roots (his parents are from Hong Kong) - or both...