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...conjunction with remarks on border security and immigration reform, Bush will speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Sen. John Kyl of Arizona, at the Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix. After an overnight stay in Phoenix, he will visit the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in El Paso, Tex., then jet to Denver for a $1,000-a-plate luncheon for two-term Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, whose tough district is closely watched by the national party. On Wednesday, the President is to make remarks on ?the War on Terror? at the Navy Academy, in Annapolis, Md., then speak...
...different tree branches every morning in an oxygen-controlled oven. At the Guggenheim in Bilbao, a prodigy named Josean Martķnez Alija, 27, is winning accolades for dishes like roasted tomatoes stuffed with baby squid and candied cod in garlic oil. Most famously, there is Ferrįn Adrią of El Bulli, two hours north of Barcelona in the seaside town of Roses. A food alchemist, Adrią has inspired a generation of chefs with his scientific approach to cooking: rendering gelatins out of seaweed powder, combining flavors like salmon and coffee, using nitrous oxide gas to create sauces airier than foam...
...shut out of El Bulli and stuck in Madrid, don't fret. The city boasts plenty of innovative places. One of them is La Broche in the Miguel Angel hotel, whose executive chef, Sergi Arola, apprenticed with Adrią. Dining at La Broche is an immersion in formalism. The color scheme of the dining room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adrią's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot...
...becoming a nation of nations, something former PP leader in Catalonia Aleix Vidal-Quadras calls "a political, logical and semantic absurdity." He asks, "Can you have a bicycle of bicycles, a chair of chairs, a moon of moons?" "Why not?" replied another Catalan, Augusti Fancelli, in an article in El País this month. Isn't the Bible "the book of books," Don Quixote "the novel of novels"? Didn't Gertrude Stein say a rose is a rose is a rose? When I first visited Spain, even to speak in hushed tones in a bar about royal succession, homosexuality...
...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...