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...have to be this way. The loss of his knowledge and institutional memory is incalculable—part of the wide-scale national throwing out of talent as once-valuable leaders are put out to pasture. In their 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All-Society, economists Philip Cook and Robert Frank point to how “winner-take-all” contests lead to a waste of national talent. The arrival of a new top dog means that the old one, including all of the hard lessons and information learned along the way, is cast aside. CEOs, governors...
...great cook,” he brags. “Well, I’m a pretty good cook...
...center of a complex universe of ciphers and rituals that he concocted. He assigned code names for each of the places he frequented: the Boat Club was called 200; the Olympic Committee, 60; al-Abit palace, 111. Those in his employ were assigned numbersthe physiotherapist, 90; the cook, 222. Uday changed these codes every few months, and anyone who forgot the new system was beaten, according to a note written by Uday at the bottom of the most recent code sheet. A family friend says Uday, like his father, had his staff periodically weighed. If someone had gained weight, Uday...
...Endangered-animal protection is largely a foreign concept in China. Some 40% of the rhinoceros horn poached in Africa winds up in China, where pharmacists tout its restorative powers. The same disregard goes for many of China's native endangered species. "If I could find a good way to cook tiger, I'd prepare it," says a chef surnamed Chen at Shanghai's Guhua Garden restaurant as he hacks up a freshly skinned king snake...
...wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff outnumbered clients. At the Yuksom trailhead, Samten Bhutia, our guide, hired the cook, a cook's helper, two dzos (hirsute offspring of yaks and cows), and a herder to manage the beasts and their burdens...