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...here because he's been hailed as the father of "molecular gastronomy" (a term that does not appeal to him), having invented the technique of reducing foods to their essence, and then transforming the form in which they're presented - flavored foams and the like - techniques now common in high-end restaurants everywhere. Still, if Adria is accustomed to the adulation of foodies, he stood staring, arms akimbo, in happy disbelief at the hall packed with science students. (Read TIME's Top 10 food trends...
Coincidentally, I was watching the concert movie Dave Chappelle's Block Party the other night, in which he puts on a bunch of these alternative hip-hop artists that you talk about in your book - Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West. Other than Kanye, why don't these artists sell as well as the Jay-Zs or the 50 Cents...
...putting down, so I sacked up: I waited until she left and then furiously searched for her on Facebook. Her unprotected profile and explicitly “single” status was a less than subtle hint that she wanted it. We had only one friend in common: Milosz Cherepanovich, the Albanian kid from my freshman entryway. Since I was very confident that Europeans had more sex than Americans, and somewhat confident that Albania was part of Europe, I sought him out for advice. I mean, let’s be honest here, seeing this kid was like [JOKE REDACTED...
...private institutions whose day-to-day operations are accountable only to their shareholders, even when the consequences of those operations are socially beneficial. Our basic political assumptions about the interface between the private and public spheres of interest require these corporations to formally support the work of the common good through the mechanism of taxes. This is a mechanism that has its share of functional problems. But it is the best mechanism we have, and Americans—including most academics—have come to accept corporate taxation as a generally positive policy. One can hardly imagine President Faust...
...elliptical populist desire for eating the rich in order to suggest that the endowment should be taxable. You only need to make an honest assessment of the purpose that taxes play in our society, and realize that sometimes we must submerge our immediate advantages under the title of the common good...