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...Grand Buffet...
...Such a buffet of contemptibility can work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast. Coupling's, like so many post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely...
...murder; in Kathmandu. The feral Sobhraj, a half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey. He served 21 years in jail before being repatriated to France. Kathmandu police found Sobhraj gambling in a five-star hotel casino; he is being...
...answer, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, is yes. When 24 volunteers were injected with PYY or a placebo and set loose on a buffet lunch, all the subjects who got PYY--fat and thin--packed away a third fewer calories. The same study revealed that obese people make a third less PYY than their thinner counterparts. No wonder they overeat...
...Barking Crab’s rudimentary cracking devices, along with its blasé Jimmy Buffet atmosphere, make for a fun and relaxing dining experience. Even the waitstaff is in good spirits, sailing from table to table while whistling along to the eclectic background music. Tarr and the rest of the restaurant’s staff don’t differentiate between work and play. “We have a very happy staff,” Tarr says, maybe because “the people who come in are usually in a good mood and fun to work...