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Recession Special. Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio's New York City restaurant Craft is offering to ease the strain on your expense account. Colicchio and executive chef Damon Wise have opened "Damon: Frugal Friday" in Craft's special-events space next door, with a $10-or-less menu featuring dishes like salt cod fritters; pizza with fresh ricotta, black cabbage and truffle vinaigrette; crispy pig ear, deviled egg salad and celery; and smoked beef tartar and spiced flatbread. Even the cocktails and wine are priced under $10. Seating is first come, first served; open every Friday from...
...addition to winning an Oscar in 1966 for his short film Le Poulet, Claude Berri helped craft the sensibility of French New Age cinema. He was known for his lush cinematography and neatly resolved plots, and he worked as a producer for directors such as Roman Polanski and Milos Forman. Berri...
...important guiding principles: that the provisions be "timely, temporary and targeted." "If we heap too much on top of the package, it will then take us deeply into debt," she warned in a speech on the House floor on Jan. 29, 2008. But now, as Congress gears up to craft a mammoth stimulus package that will dwarf last year's $170 billion bill, those requirements don't seem to be all that binding. (See a bailout report card...
...dune buggy-size Spirit and Opportunity are the third in NASA's family of Mars rovers, descendants of the 2-ft.-long Sojourner craft, which arrived on Mars in the summer of 1997. Like its bigger siblings, Sojourner came with only a very brief factory warranty - just 30 days in its case - and like its bigger siblings, easily exceeded it, operating for five months before finally surrendering to the Martian elements. It's rarely a good idea to take NASA's estimates of the lifespan of its ships too literally. The agency tends to lowball these calls, making it more...
...Vincent's writing is clean and crisp; she takes her craft very seriously. And although a first-person peek into any institution will be colored by the narrator's perspective, the book focuses almost entirely on Vincent and her struggle to define her own illness. The nurses are watching her, the patients are bothering her, the doctors are locked in a power struggle with her. Vincent focuses so much on herself that the reader begins to mistrust the hospital observations she presents as fact. Are the nurses really that cruel, or is she just imagining it? The three treatment centers...