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...Still, what else are you going to call it? In an effort to move away from the dreaded 'molecular,' in 2008 Adrià embraced a new name, coined by Catalan journalist Pau Arenós: "techno-emotional." The term was received with relief among some chefs desperate for a more lyrical description of what they did and derision among the better part of the food-writing community; this year, it got no traction at all. Instead, Adrià opted for 'scientific gastronomy,' while McGee, arguing that all cooking involves scientific processes, made a plea for plain and simple 'gastronomy...
...brown clouds.) While carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere respond on a sluggish 100-year timescale to reductions in emissions, soot particles, whose effects are equivalent to roughly half the warming damage that carbon dioxide does, have a shelf life of only a few weeks. Environmentalists have joined scientists' call to urge governments to cut pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves in developing countries and turning to solar power and other clean sources of energy. "We need sustainable growth in every city in this world," says Edwin Lau Che Feng, director of the environmental group Friends of the Earth...
...Dinner for two, with a couple of glasses of wine each, comes to about $370 - pricey, but with the restaurant occupying Miele's top spot, there's no shortage of people willing to pay it. For reservations, call...
...Call it the law that just won't die. Six months after France's ruling Conservatives voted to gut the nation's famous 35-hour work week, anecdotal evidence suggests most companies are sticking with it. French corporations and smaller firms furiously denounced the Socialist's 1998 work-week reduction, and last year's law change allows employers to force staff to work longer hours. But most bosses appear to have stuck with the shorter week, to avoid disputes with leisure-loving employees, and, it seems, as a useful tool in dealing with the growing economic downturn...
...classic example of what the French call a pétard mouillé - or soggy firecracker that fails to explode. Few of the expected changes to the 35-hour week have materialized since France's Conservative government passed a measure in July designed to make it easier for bosses to force their employees to work more. The move retained the 35-hour week as the nominal legal reference to undercut union protest, but then rendered it nonsensical by giving employers a free hand to set far longer work requirements. So far, however, bosses haven't seen fit to make such...