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...While we're on the subject of iPods and iTunes, I wanted to draw your attention to a cool, unusual development. Coinstar, operators of those machines in grocery stores that turn your loose change into crisp bills for a percentage, is now giving iTunes credit for change. Best of all, they don?t take out a percentage. In other words, if you bring in roughly $20 in change and take iTunes credit instead of cash, you get a gift-certificate code to enter when you? re in the iTunes Music Store - and you walk away with a dollar...
...Lido's hilltop setting ranks among "the most beautiful sites in Asia." While that may be a tad hyperbolic, the cooking of chef Michele Pavanello will certainly have you fumbling for superlatives. Dishes like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma ham with saut?ed mushrooms on a rosemary crisp lure a glamorous crowd, as do the sea views and a chic dining room with furnishings by the likes of Arne Jacobsen and Antonio Citterio...
...caustic wit and crisp British accent make Dr. Knock both sympathetic as the only voice of scientific logic in the small town of San Maurice and—once Dr. Knock successful converts the population of San Maurice to depend on his “treatments”—believable in his monstrosity as a megalomaniac authority figure who creates bedridden, paying patients out of healthy townspeople. Above all, she excels at that transition between disappointed young doctor and crazed dictator...
...similar controversy surrounded Pasteur’s “discovery” of the microbe in the nineteenth century.) To what extent do we let medicine govern our bodies more than is necessary? And it’s difficult to avoid allusions to Hitler in the stiffly crisp and completely insane figure of Dr. Knock and the mechanistic modernization he envisions in his “medicine,” exposing the issue of whether modern medicine is actually kind of scientific totalitarianism...
...hilltop setting ranks among "the most beautiful sites in Asia." While that may be a tad hyperbolic, the cooking of chef Michele Pavanello will certainly have you fumbling for superlatives. Dishes like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma ham with sautéed mushrooms on a rosemary crisp lure a glamorous crowd, as do the sea views and a chic dining room with furnishings by the likes of Arne Jacobsen and Antonio Citterio. But ultimately it is Rochester Park in one-north district - the city's newly minted tech and biomedical-science hub - that is Singapore's hottest...