Word: boosterism
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...perhaps American food has become Japanese. Undoubtedly the greatest effect Japanese food has had on American cuisine is to ease its reliance on fat as a taste booster. So it's ironic that the Japanese influence came to the U.S. by way of France, home of butter and foie gras. It all began around the '60s, when Japanese students at the great French cooking schools divulged their own trade secrets. Soon Parisian chefs had adopted such Japanese techniques as arranging food artfully in tiny portions. "The minimalism and simplicity, the sophistication of presentation appealed to chefs in three-star restaurants...
...greenhouse emissions are projected to grow more than 20% by then, which means that getting 7% below 1990 levels could actually require a 30% cut in output. Even then, the difference might not be enough to have any real impact. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a Kyoto booster, believes that in order to put the brakes on warming, a reduction of 60% may be needed. So sobering are these numbers that even nations that still support the pact have had trouble apportioning the burden, and the most recent talks, at the Hague last November, collapsed. The next meeting is scheduled...
Northeastern is the only team to have defeated Dartmouth all year, and having just defeated the Huskies in overtime is an automatic confidence booster heading into this weekend's showdown...
...abortion and homosexuality, place her to the left of social conservatives. If some Republicans question the sanity of marrying a Clinton-loving Democrat, none doubt her fierce loyalty to the G.O.P. or her devotion to the Bush family. As an unpaid adviser to Bush 2000, Matalin remained his relentless booster on CNN, an arrangement she never saw as a conflict. Former President Bush has said that toward the end of his failing re-election bid, he and Matalin were the only ones on the campaign who thought he still had a chance--proof that loyalty can sometimes lead to blindness...
...from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable ADHD are not getting the drug, while more than half the kids who take the drug should...