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Writer Julie Powell's debut book Julie & Julia endeared her to aspiring cooks everywhere. The project started as a blog - chronicling the year she spent cooking all 524 recipes from Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking - and grew into a hit movie starring Amy Adams and...
You started learning butchery at a difficult point in your marriage. I am the kind of person who, in a period of crisis, tends to make my life crazier than it was already. The Julie & Julia project was all about that - a way for me to bring some structure to...
Few could qualify for taking on the responsibility that Bernanke, an expert on the Great Depression, did. His readiness was evident not just from his academic background but from his oft cited 2002 speech on deflation. In the speech, Bernanke showed the creativity and open-mindedness that have been hallmarks...
Shopkeepers are whispering in the medieval, walled Old City in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, about a war they cannot yet imagine. Workers, students and the old men who sit outside the ancient mosques are wondering what fighting between al-Qaeda and the government would look like. Would it...
An insurgency in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and the growing presence of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) all threaten the state, while a water crisis and relentless poverty threaten the people. Resources have become even more scarce with constant waves of refugees from Somalia...