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...Colicchio is a highly successful New York-based chef and cookbook author, but to fans of Bravo's cooking reality show Top Chef, he's the head judge. His piercing blue eyes, bald head and bottom-line honesty have helped make the competition show, which aired its fifth season's finale Feb. 24, a dream opportunity for aspiring top chefs across the country. Colicchio talked to TIME about fellow judge Toby Young, the love affair between two contestants and saving a life the night before Barack Obama's Inauguration. (VIDEO: Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle gives TIME a tour...
...diet plan of every flavor. And if you're one of the millions of Americans who struggle with weight, you've probably tried them all, likely with little success. That wouldn't surprise Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of a new study published in the Feb. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, whose findings confirm what a growing body of weight-loss evidence has already suggested: one diet is no better than the next when it comes to weight loss. It doesn't matter where your calories...
That remains to be seen. Ahmed Rashid, a journalist and author of a best-selling book about the Taliban, says the recent cease-fire is merely the calm before the storm. "The Taliban do not stop at one demand," explains Rashid. "All this points to a collapse of will of both the army and the government to deal with this in a more logical manner...
...quite Slumdog's tale of rags to riches - more like shining maggots to Oscar gold. The path that led Japan to take its first Oscar in Best Foreign Language film at this week's Academy Awards started with the film's lead actor, Masahiro Motoki, contacting author Shinmon Aoki to quote a passage of his novel Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician in the actor's own travel diary. "Maggots are life, too," the passage, in the voice of the novel's protagonist, reads. "When I thought that, I could see the maggots shining...
...cost-benefit analysis as a tool, but not to use it in such a way as to always reach the conclusion that regulation is too costly to impose. "It's true that cost-benefit analysis has been used in a very anti-regulatory way," says Michael A. Livermore, co-author, with Richard L. Revesz, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Enviroment and Our Health. "But cost-benefit analysis can be fixed to be more of a neutral tool." And in the midst of a severe economic downturn, he says, "it's going to be essential...