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...acquiring culinary gadgetry was easy compared with creating it, and Arnold quickly proved himself a gifted inventor. There was his immersion blender with an 18-volt battery and a trigger borrowed from a DeWalt high-speed drill, for starters. He began writing about equipment and technology for Food Arts magazine, and one night, while eating at the restaurant wd~50, Arnold chatted up chef Wylie Dufresne, a man so gadget-happy, he has deep-fried mayonnaise. Dufresne, like most people, came away from his first meeting with Arnold just a little dizzy. "He's probably a little ADD," says Dufresne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Scientist in the Kitchen | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...zone. Waiting by the weak side post, Rogers had only to reach out and redirect Taylor’s pass past Princeton goaltender Zane Kalemba (18 saves).Just over a minute later and just 11 seconds into a power-play opportunity, Rogers swooped in from the left side to drill home a rebound of freshman Alex Biega’s shot and give the Crimson a more comfortable 3-1 advantage. “As the season goes on, you start to connect better because you practice it, you practice it, you practice it,” Rogers said...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Recovers, Claws Past Tigers | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...through the fuselage on an airplane in 90 seconds, faster is much, much better. When everything works right, slides are built to handle 70 passengers per minute. Many now have two lanes. To see how fast - and scary - the slide can be, check out this video of an evacuation drill off of a Boeing 777, the same kind of plane involved in the Heathrow crash landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...gotten everybody's attention. I'm speaking to you from Western Massachusetts where the thermometer hit 60 yesterday and was four degrees below zero three days before. Weather is going crazy everywhere. Ice caps are melting, and we're hearing that could push sea levels up. You know the drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Humans | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...something everyone's looking at to see if a different pattern comes out for you." With Legend, Smith hopes to break one of Hollywood's rigid rules. "Summer movies are about things that happen, and fall movies are about how people respond to things that happen," he says. "The drill was to try to blend those two things, to make a movie that is 100% about following the character [scientist Robert Neville] and how the character reacts to what happened [the destruction of humanity]." Smith traditionally owns July 4 weekend, with things-that-happen movies like Independence Day. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legend of Will Smith | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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