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...human ally. His desperate choice: a callow scullery lad named Linguini. Remy, in the logic of animated features, understands the boy's words, but Linguini can't speak rat; so the two communicate through Remy's nods and brow furrowings. Somehow, the kid gets the message. "I can't cook ..." Linguini says, and the rodent shakes his head no. "But you can?" Remy answers with a Gallic shrug so eloquent it says many things. First, a modest "Eh, a little." Beneath that: "Well, not to brag, but I'm actually quite proficient." Most important: "Trust me. Together we'll cook...
...Even Shinobu's family seldom eats at home on weeknights. As she wraps the leftovers from lunch, Shinobu says that her own grown daughter, a travel agent in central Tokyo, has been too busy to learn how to cook. "But she chose a husband who knows how to cook, so she's lucky!" Shinobu adds. Luckier than many in Japan...
...thousand feet below and two hours later, matters started to look worse. Paula Viesturs, Ed's wife, had been making potato soup in the cook tent at the 17,600-ft. base camp and stepped outside for a moment. Looking down, she saw a bank of huge, bruise-colored clouds rolling up the mountain. Clouds like that were almost certainly carrying a storm, and this storm appeared to be climbing fast. Before long, a high-altitude blizzard would lash one camp after another, until it finally reached the unprotected climbers clinging to the peak...
...London hospital, where patients don't pay anything, they get money for the trip back home. Any prescription under the U.K. National Health plan, he suggests, costs only about $12. And in France, the government will pay not only for health costs but for nannies. They'll even cook for you, and do your laundry. If Sicko doesn't win over the audience at tonight's black-tie world premiere, Moore's francophilia should do the trick. I'd take odds on a 15-min. standing ovation...
...deliberation, and it ensures that Luna, convicted last Thursday after a 14-day trial, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. James Degorski, the second man charged in the case, one of Illinois' longest-running murder mysteries and worst massacres, is expected to go on trial soon. Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, who argued part of the case and pleaded with jurors to impose death during the verdict stage over the last two days, told reporters he "respected" the decision...