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...Smith the day she was born. But Paul adored food. So even though she had never cooked much, Julia got a diploma at France's Cordon Bleu when Paul was stationed in Paris. Shortly thereafter, she and two French colleagues, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, started writing the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It was published in 1961, the year she and Paul moved to Massachusetts...
...grab the book. How about this? "Lebanon has never won an Olympic medal, but recently a Lebanese woman won the world karaoke championship in Finland, singing the 1980s classic Fame." Oh, this is the one: "Gabon's President, as you know, is Omar Bongo, now in his 37th year as head of state. And yet again, he has promised any Gabonian medal winner a new house and vast sums of cash. But the wily Bongo is hedging his bets, insofar as they have never won an Olympic medal...
...classic new-economy fable: a university student starts a tech firm in Silicon Valley, never bothers to graduate and goes on to make billions. The only difference between that legend and the true story of Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion (RIM), is that it took Lazaridis about a decade to come up with his killer idea, and when his epiphany did come, it happened in Canada, not California...
...Long Island, wondered what they still had in common. She had a corporate career in banking; he owned a roofing business. "We were going in different directions," she says. Then, five years ago, Lynn encouraged her husband to plunk down $18,000 on a Harley-Davidson Road King Classic. Without hesitation, Lynn jumped on the back. After a while, she opted for her own machine...
...newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt to the state-ordered dyslexia and return to classic German spelling," the publishers said. The committee rolling out the reforms - the Kultusministerkonferenz (a compound word allowed under the new regime, since one part cannot be written independently) will hold talks in Vienna next week to decide whether the reforms need to be reformed. The decision by Axel Springer Verlag...