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Since the meteoric rise of Britain's "Naked Chef," Jamie Oliver (nicknamed for the simplicity of his food, not a lack of wardrobe), the Food Network has been looking for a hip, young American equivalent. As stars like Emeril become familiar fodder for foodies--and slightly stale to some--the network's execs are hoping Lieberman will help carry the franchise forward. "We look at thousands of tapes, trying to find new cooking stars," says Bob Tuschman, the Food Network's director of daytime programming, who was impressed by Lieberman's boy-wonder cooking skills and boy-next-door charm...
...Britain hosts a touring, hands-on exhibition called "Move over Einstein," which will be at the Science Museum in LONDON from April 16 until June 12, and then departs for Edinburgh and Belfast, among other locations. Targeted mainly at 11- to 14-year-olds, the show profiles some of the projects that Einstein's successors are working on, such as an electronic nose that can sniff your breath to make a medical diagnosis, and tiny robots that may soon navigate your bloodstream. Tel: (44-870) 870 4868; einsteinyear.org...
...seemed like anywhere you looked last week, there was a major car company in crisis. Britain's MG Rover was the worst off. On Friday, with its already-meager sales sliding, its cash depleted and its last hope for an 11th-hour rescue by a Chinese buyer seemingly dashed, the four Birmingham businessmen who owned the outfit handed it over to administrators from accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Some 6,000 workers at Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham fear for their jobs, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown racing to the plant, promising...
...consider a "purely political and democratic" approach to its goal of a united Ireland. The I.R.A. said it would give the request from its political allies "due consideration." Adams' opponents accuse him of electioneering: he delivered his message surrounded by his party's candidates on the day after Britain's general election was announced. Unionist leaders say he's seeking to relieve pressure on Sinn Fein after accusations of I.R.A. involvement in a $50 million bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney in a Belfast bar. And the I.R.A. has often boosted Sinn Fein by making peaceful gestures just...
...have the right to choose their supplier, and by 2007 all consumers should be able to do the same. But in reality, some state-backed energy companies like Italy's Eni and France's EdF have steadfastly clung to their dominant market position. Urging the Commission to act is Britain, which has led the way on liberalizing its energy markets but claims it is falling victim to price fixing and is routinely denied access to the pipelines and grids it needs. And although 10 member states are now threatened with court action...