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...incisive, cracklingly funny book scheduled for release May 30. Actually, as you can guess from the title--Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher (Alfred A. Knopf; 325 pages)--the book is mostly about the author, Bill Buford, a former New Yorker editor and freakishly dedicated foodie. Buford went to work as a cook at Babbo, one of seven Batali-Bastianich restaurants in Manhattan. But Batali is the book's most memorable, entertaining character. In one scene--a dinner at Batali's restaurant Lupa--Buford, his wife...
...conviction that sooner or later we're bound to win a lottery jackpot. Our belief engine, Wolpert concludes, works on wholly unscientific principles: "It prefers quick decisions, it is bad with numbers, loves representativeness and sees patterns where there is only randomness. It is too often influenced by authority and it has a liking for mysticism." It is no coincidence that the stubbornest of our "irrational" beliefs correspond to our fears of the unknown, the unknowable and the unstoppable - of disease, death and natural disaster. Although Wolpert is a passionate promoter of science, he still recognizes that religion...
...Putting both defendants on the stand risks exacerbating the problem their attorneys have had to deal with from the beginning. The testimony of the two executives will probably not be consistent, says, Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a four-volume textbook, White Collar Crime. Although Skilling and Lay probably won't turn against each other-they haven't so far-they may well contradict one another. "Both defense attorneys came in and cross-examined with one hand tied behind their back," Androphy says. The problem was most obvious during the testimony of former CFO Andrew Fastow, when...
...informal club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud chapters of his never-to-be-completed novel, Dead Souls. Now a museum, Abramtsevo offers a less combative experience to visitors...
...school" doesn't have to be a bad thing. Nostalgia, once viewed as a psychiatric disorder, can be beneficial in reasonable doses. "If someone is angry with something in the present, being nostalgic can be therapeutic," says Krystine Batcho, a Le Moyne College psychology professor and author of several studies on the subject. "It reminds you that you are someone. You're not just an ordinary...