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...DIED. BERNARD LOISEAU, 52, celebrated French chef whose La C?te d'Or restaurant, recipient of three stars from the Michelin guide, was a pilgrimage site for gastronomes the world over; from a self-inflicted shotgun wound; in Saulieu, France. Late last month, La C?te d'Or was downgraded by rival food bible Gault-Millau, which gave it a 17-out-of-20 score, slipping from its previous 19. The only chef in the world to have a public company, Loiseau rose to fame as a pioneer of nouvelle cuisine and operated three other eateries in Paris. His death sparked criticism...
...selling dreams. we are merchants of happiness," chef Bernard Loiseau once said. The ebullient Loiseau ran one of only 25 restaurants in France to be awarded three stars by the all-powerful Michelin guide. His Côte d'Or restaurant in the Burgundy region of France is a shrine to detail, to perfection on a plate. And like the other markets for dreams and happiness - films, say, or fashion or narcotics - it was a brutal pursuit. Loiseau had not taken a vacation in four years. He had planned one for this winter, but last week another French restaurant guide...
...NATURAL RESOURCES The price of metals and other raw materials is rising. Bernard Horn, manager of the Polaris Global Value fund, is overweighting resource-rich South Africa and buying the stocks of materials companies around the globe like paper firms Sappi in South Africa (ADR up 18% in the past 12 months) and Svenska Cellulosa, or SCA, in Sweden (ADR up 8%). Other countries rich in natural resources and poised for outsize benefit are Australia and Canada...
...glossy black that gleams like marble. It's easy to imagine the radioactive energy stored in this rock. Whatever your environmental stance, at McArthur River you can sense the elemental power of uranium, a clean-burning source of seemingly limitless electricity. And you can understand former Cameco CEO Bernard Michel's assessment: "The world is seeing a fresh start for nuclear power...
...This is how Rembrandt painted angels," Vincent van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard in 1888. "He paints a self-portrait, old, toothless, wrinkled, wearing a cotton cap, a painting from life, in a mirror ... and, why or how I cannot tell ... Rembrandt paints a supernatural angel with a Da Vinci smile within that old man who resembles himself." That description certainly fits the superb 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait, on loan from London's National Gallery, currently hanging beside Van Gogh's own 1888 Self-Portrait as an Artist. It is the centerpiece of "Vincent's Choice...