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...DIED. KENNETH BIGLEY, 62, British engineer kidnapped on Sept. 16 in Baghdad by members of an Islamic militant group, Tawhid and Jihad, and beheaded following an apparent escape attempt; in Iraq. Earlier videos showing Bigley in a cage of chicken wire, pleading for the British government to comply with his captors' demands, sparked weeks of debate over Prime Minister Tony Blair's handling of the crisis and the Iraq war in general. Following news of Bigley's death, his family issued a statement saying they believed the government had done everything possible to secure his release...
...animal diseases) to the less pressing (how to duplicate the tangy taste of San Francisco's sourdough bread outside the Bay Area). Along the way, the agency has won numerous patents for breakthrough mechanisms, like the one pending for turning peanut shells into hydrogen fuel and another for harnessing chicken manure to remove metals from polluted water...
...Frisson, San Francisco's newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and cilantro. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-- scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber and honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers say Patterson is breaking new ground in the way he employs scent to amplify flavor. "Aroma really...
...card. It has one rounded corner and reads, "25% safer than most other business cards." It's a little impish, yes, but also engaging, like the offbeat advertising campaigns dreamed up at Bogusky's Miami firm, Crispin Porter & Bogusky. That's the company, after all, that created the Subservient Chicken, Burger King's bizarre chicken-sandwich mascot. The online ad features an actor in a chicken suit and a garter belt who will do just about anything visitors to the site demand (short of poultry porn). Designed to convey Burger King's "Have It Your Way" slogan to a more...
...alum remembers "gaining 15 and then some" before she graduated in 1998. Now, as one of the school's nutritionists, she greets students with her Avoid the Freshman 15 brochure (which includes nutritional information) and also holds workshops. The dining-hall menu doesn't always support her efforts. "Our chicken fingers are the No. 1-- selling item," she says. "If we take those away, we may cause a riot...