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...scoring system, the "code of points," first used in Torino. I think it's raised the level of skating skill to impressive levels in ways that don't always come across on television. The edges are sharper and deeper, the footwork is cleaner and crisper, and the spins are tighter and, frankly, more like spins than the squats some skaters were getting away with for years. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...More than a result, I wanted to see the measuring stick of how we improved, and I think we showed that,” Leone said. “We were fitter, we were crisper in how we played, and it was a good soccer game...
...much as in Sauternes. Unsurprisingly, the French have a presence in the region. AXA Millésimes - the winemaking subsidiary of the AXA insurance company - is behind Disznókó, the largest and arguably the most forward-looking single-estate Tokaj producer. The label is pioneering a fresher, crisper, more elegantly structured and less oxidized style of Tokaj that ages better in the bottle. Aymeric de Gironde, international sales director of Disznókó, is confident that Tokaj has the potential to double its sales over the next decade. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...cream that are probably out of reach for amateurs. But, says author Heston Blumenthal, whose Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, England, got three stars from Michelin, "we still have lots of little bits and techniques people can pull out and use at home," like poaching potatoes before frying for crisper chips. Blumenthal, by the way, is not fond of the term molecular gastronomy, which he thinks sounds litist. "Everything in cooking is chemical," he says. "Water is a chemical. Salt is a chemical...
...Lowdown: If you saw 8 Mile, you're familiar with much of Eminem's story already, and unfortunately the narrative is crisper on the silver screen. Though sprinkled with anecdotal gems, this tangled history veers closer to "annotated picture book" than autobiography and crumples under the weight of too many half-baked attempts at introspection. The book's structure, it seems, was dictated not by laziness but by personal philosophy: he's not much of a reader. ("If there are no pictures in a book, forget it.") But he doesn't seem much for writing, either. Die-hard fans will...