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...students, seven of whom are from Harvard, will travel to China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Africa and Tanzania...
...more to do with Spain's emergence as the pacesetter in international haute cuisine than Ferran Adria, a stocky, friendly and constantly moving impresario of gastronomic innovation. His restaurant, El Bulli, which is located up a winding road near the town of Rosas on Catalonia's Costa Brava, gets 1 million reservation requests a year, only about 8,000 of which he can honor. Adria puts no truck in old standbys. His constantly shifting degustation menu always aims to trump itself. A meal lasts for hours, alternating between sweet and savory, hot and cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears...
...other winners? Smaller shops, which are absorbing business that the big audit firms are barred from providing, such as running tests of internal controls for clients. "The environment for these services is phenomenally good," says Stephen Giusto, CFO of Resources Connection, an accountancy and consulting company based in Costa Mesa, Calif., whose fiscal 2003 revenues rose 11%, to $202 million...
...undergraduate at Taylor University in Indiana, Simons spent a semester studying in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and was struck by the abject poverty he witnessed. “It wouldn’t be right for me to go back to the States and pretend I never saw that,” Simons said...
...they’ll resemble the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender of travel to the armies of abstraction. And then the hoards of lei-draped tourists boarding their Abstraction Airlines flight to Costa Rica will shout, “So much for the journey. All hail the destination...