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...story for all it was worth, as any news organization would do. But ABC's VIPs are not strangers to corporate jets. This week there's ABC's Charlie Gibson interviewing George Bush on Marine One, the helicopter the President uses to get out of town to Camp David. You think Charlie took Amtrak to Washington to meet the President? Even if he did, it's fairly routine for the networks to ferry their precious anchors around by private jet these days. (And while we're at it, why can't Bush take a carpool to Camp David? This nation...
...favorite stories in this issue, a special supplement to TIME, is about the current trend in no-frills dining. Major chefs like Jol Robuchon of L'Atelier and David Chang of the Momofuku empire are forgoing the usual dining-room luxuries like linen tablecloths, flowers and bread baskets to focus instead on great food and even greater prices. Some of these forward-thinking chefs are going so far as to forfeit waiters too, choosing to serve the food themselves. Needless to say, their establishments are packed. And customers are more than willing to wait...
...other as easily as if each possessed a green beard. While a handful of such genes were previously identified in ants and slime molds, the FLO1 yeast research now represents “the most detailed genetic analysis of green beard genes to date,” Verstrepen said. David C. Queller, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University, said of the research, “I find it interesting that an organism as well-studied as yeast has these green-beard genes. Perhaps once we look close enough, we might find them...
...David W. Bates, one of the authors of the study and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, said that part of the reason for this correlation could be that the care being delivered is actually of higher quality...
Among the crowd-pleasers, this year, was Spain's David Fandila, known simply as "El Fandi," who mixes technical prowess with athletic ability. His moves get people on their feet and almost always end with him receiving a severed ear or two at the end of each match. The multi-talented Fandi arrived for this year's bullfighting season fresh off completing the New York marathon...