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...Rachael, you know that any discussion of American foodways comes back around, for me, to the subject of our great national food, the hamburger, which is after all what brings us all here today. I don't think I have enough words to declare my love for the burger. I know you always take pains to say hamburgers because you're a purist. But I think you can make anything you want into a burger. I love tuna burgers, veal burgers, beef burgers. [Laughs...
...flavor of your life. And if you share it with other people it fills you up before you ever take a bite of it. It can connect you to your past, it can take you away to a place you've never been and dreamed of, or take you back to places you've been and want to remember. It's a wonderful vehicle of the mind, the body and the soul. It's great. I love...
...cash between your credit-card and home-loan commitments and contacting your lenders. Bilker says you can often strike a deal, especially these days. "Tell them you are thinking of contacting a bankruptcy lawyer, so they can work with you on a plan now or face not getting paid back in court," says Bilker. "These days, more lenders are listening...
...hire, help prevent the program from becoming a political patronage orgy. UNDP officials say the Haitian government has been remarkably cooperative. But Haitians aren't shy about noting how thoroughly corrupt that government is. Many workers openly laud the fact that they don't need to know (or kick back to) a local machine boss to get a cash-for-work spot - "If the government were running this, I probably wouldn't have this job," says Sentelis Doassalit, 30 - and that the pay goes directly to their hands and not through a venal, lethargic Haitian bureaucracy...
...says, "which has proven to be remarkably entrepreneurial and resourceful" in ways it couldn't be under the corrupt, ossified system in their homeland. One of these émigrés is Serge Jean-Louis, a thriving Haitian-American construction contractor in South Florida. "I'm eager to fly back and help rebuild Haiti," he told TIME shortly after the quake. And chances are, he'll surpass Haiti's dismal standards and help rebuild more to the modern specs of Chile...