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...when I went to lay the basic vocal tracks, I discovered that I had no voice. All of the singing in the dusty woods of Big Sur with the wood smoke and the cabin we were staying in, drinking too much whiskey in the kitchen and doing all of these horrible things for my voice had really hurt it. I had to not talk for two months. That obviously put a huge freeze on making the record...
Thomas Keller, who is often referred to as the best chef in America, is a devotee. So are many of the chefs on TV. Sensing the curiosity of home cooks like me, appliance makers are reaching out to both high- and low-end consumers. The very basic SousVideMagic ($159) works in conjunction with a rice cooker. The SousVide Supreme ($450), which came out in November, is a self-contained unit about the size of a microwave. I decided to test-drive the top of the line: an immersion circulator from PolyScience ($1,129), which, unlike its less expensive brethren, ensures...
...barely worthy of discussion, historically speaking. In years past, legislation regularly passed by such margins and garnered little media attention when it did. Yet, today, every measure seems split on party lines. Hostility and blind partisanship are the going order, and, as such, Brown’s adherence to basic representational duties has been mistakenly considered noble...
Obviously there are times when you just shouldn't hit "send"; at its most basic level, TigerTexting is like paying $2.50 a month for stupidity insurance. But let's face it: who among us has never needed a do-over...
...Basic macroeconomics teaches that fiscal and monetary policy are related; therefore, governments and central banks must sometimes be able to take wide-ranging action on both during crises. As George Soros wrote in the Financial Times on Monday, “When the financial system is in danger of collapsing, the central bank can provide liquidity, but only a Treasury can deal with problems of solvency.” Europe is now experiencing an unfortunate situation where member countries can create unsustainable deficits or be home to failing financial systems and for this reason place the entire economic system...