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...Bulli may be the most fussed-over restaurant in the world, its 33-course meals the object of countless gastronomic pilgrimages, its 8,000 reservations per season snapped up in a single day, its edible foams and spheres part of the current culinary vocabulary. But since its famous chef, Ferran Adrià, was named a featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary-art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany, El Bulli has become the focus of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike...
...institution necessary to romance had disappeared, a fact that she mourned. She thought love was a many-splendored thing that should never be cheapened. Love, she believed, brought out the best in people. While she was partial to men, many of her loyal friends were women. She had countless friends - of both genders - all over the city, and they all took care of her. As she got older, for example, she was not supposed to drive, but drive she did, in Maine and at her beloved Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, and so the local policemen watched...
...Among the countless images of suffering that lay in Katrina's wake, flooded St. Rita's nursing home in the New Orleans suburb of St. Bernard Parish, was one of the most harrowing. The owners of the nursing home, Salvador and Mabel Mangano - 67 and 65, respectively - quickly came to be seen as villains in the tragedy for choosing not to evacuate their residents, and now they face charges of negligent homicide. The trial was moved to this town on the banks of the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge after defense lawyers claimed their clients couldn...
...There was a time when most boys had a good role model in their father, who was the provider and protector of the family, a role that sat well with the male disposition as it has been formed over countless millennia. Then came feminism, and the claim that apart from some bodily plumbing, males and females were interchangeable, both equally suited for any role in life. As men became more emasculated, boys became more confused. The education system too shifted toward favoring girls and feminist culture, until girls were doing better in school than boys. Fortunately, enough boys seem...
...secret that Europeans know how to party. Countless American college students trek to the old continent every summer equipped with only a backpack as they hop from city to city to booze it up in multi-level nightclubs submerged in the drumming rhythms of techno music and pass out the next day in city caf?...