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Adriá’s work is a prime example of the intersection between science and cooking, Weitz said. His restaurant El Bulli is only open six months a year; he spends the other six researching culinary science in a lab in Barcelona. Weitz added that El Bulli is so popular that reservation applications are only accepted one day a year and it is more difficult to make a reservation at El Bulli than to get into Harvard...
SEAS postdoctoral fellow Otger Campás-Rigau first suggested the course after hearing a speech by Adriá at Harvard in 2008. In designing the curriculum, Weitz and Campás-Rigau consulted the Fundación Alicia, a Barcelona-based nonprofit headed by Adriá that focuses on innovation in kitchen science...
...Haji-Ioannou didn't take the bait. But easyJet did publish an ad mocking Dublin-based Ryanair by comparing the airports it serves with those easyJet flies to. Focusing on four metropolitan areas - Paris, Barcelona, Milan and Venice - it boasted that it flies to the cities themselves, while Ryanair flies to obscure towns that are hours outside the cities. "Who loves flying you to the place you actually booked?" a banner message at the top of the ad asks. Ryanair quickly asked the Advertising Standards Authority to ban the ads on the grounds they are misleading and denigrating. The advertising...
...handful of journalists who got a look at WP7 before the official Feb. 15 unveiling by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And after spending some time with several core members of the Windows phone team, I walked away wondering if these vibrant people worked for the same company that gave us Vista. The team constantly referred to the WP7 project as a "gut check" because it was obvious that they had to do something different. And they...
...Martínez-Patiño, who has AIS, was kicked off the Spanish national team, stripped of her titles and barred from competition in 1986 after gender-verification tests showed she was genetically male. IOC medical officials allowed her to compete in the 1992 Olympic trials in Barcelona, but the damage was done. "In the worst of moments, when I had no support from anyone, I thought I would be better off dead," she says. "It killed me that I couldn't participate in the sport and, above all, I thought I would never recover from the embarrassment...