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Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen (Norton) Gina DePalma, pastry chef at Mario Batali's restaurant Babbo, shares her dessert recipes, as well as her expertise on Italian culture...
...billion business, according to research group Common Sense Advisory. While much of that is due to the military, there has been renewed growth elsewhere. "Firms from Starbucks to McDonald's now have to communicate and market to customers in dozens of different languages," says Common Sense Advisory president Don DePalma...
...boom in translation jobs comes because of--and despite--technology. DePalma says there has been real acceleration in demand tied to software, since Microsoft's new Vista operating system, updated versions of Mac and various other electronic devices have to conform to European standards. That requires local language to be used in everything from instruction manuals to safety standards. Add the growing use of bilingual signage aimed at Hispanics, multilingual U.S. court requirements and hospital needs, and over the next eight years, full-time linguistics employment is expected to jump more than 25%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...quarter of a century ago, his first film, 1973's Badlands, earned the then 29-year-old a prominent spot in the generation of young film-schooled directors that included Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Brian DePalma, who together created a new, nervy kind of movie-literate cinema but who then, as the 1970s wore on into the '80s and '90s, made some really rotten movies along with the good. Malick's reputation, meanwhile, remains crystalline, pure with the promise and power of his youthful work. Badlands, which was shot for somewhere between...
...benefited personally. Zinser, a member of the Congressional commission investigating corruption in the administration of President Salinas, filed his findings Thursday night with the Mexican Congress. The government Friday disputed Zinser's account as one-sided and misleading, and threatened to take legal action against the Times reporter, Anthony DePalma. TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez reports that Zinser's documentation has been public for some time, and that the congressman may be on shaky ground. "Obviously he is taking this to the New York Times because the investigating commission wasn't behind him." Regardless of possible wrongdoing...