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...recent months. Shabu-shabu is cooked by dipping raw ingredients, primarily vegetables and thinly sliced beef, into a simmering metal pot of stock placed at the center of each table. Having first met in 1990 at Montien—a Thai restaurant in Boston’s Theater District where Lymswam was a kitchen worker and Kordsomboon was a chef—the partners bought the restaurant four years later and went on to open up the two popular restaurants in Harvard Square. Kordsomboon started out as a teenage chef in Thailand, cooking at restaurants across the country and quickly...
...called Charlotte, N.C., a "trifling place." In 1941 an author scoffed that the city had as much use for high-rises "as a hog has for a morning coat." By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday after work. "No restaurants. No nightlife. Nothing," recalls seven-term Republican mayor Pat McCrory. "You could lie down in the street and never have to worry about getting run over." A local planner gained notoriety by proving it was impossible to find a Snickers bar downtown...
...algorithm that assigns students to fulfill set demographic ratios. Cambridge parent Raymond Traieth, who said he believes controlled choice has failed, said the “cold cynicism” of the program alienates people from the values it was meant to support. Many parents asked that the school district provide more detailed information about how and why decisions are made, as well as inform families earlier to help reduce the anxious waiting period. Some voiced concerns about the effects of a long commute on their children, suggesting that the algorithm be tweaked to allow parents to prioritize factors?...
...bombs can change the course of history. Many believe that the IRA's 1993 truck bomb attack in in Bishopsgate, the center of London's financial district, helped convince Britain to seek a political settlement with the IRA. In 2005, a former Lebanese prime minister in 2005 was killed by a car bomb that provoked a cascade of events that led to Hizballah becoming the de facto sovereign authority in Lebanon. Or, on a happier side, the sharp drop off in car-bombs in Iraq has averted a civil war. And the Oklahoma City truck bombing effectively destroyed the right...
...Take the case of Jose E. Serrano, a charismatic Congressman from New York who said in Denver that Bronx is the poorest district located in the “richest city in the world.” But measured by personal net earnings, New York did not even make the global top ten last year. Did Mr. Serrano mean to make a more modest U.S.-limited comparison, perhaps? A 2005 Forbes rating by the highest median household income reveals that neither New York nor Los Angeles are among the ten richest cities, even in the United States...