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...main course, we sampled two of the rustic pasta dishes. The gnocchi ($20) was doughy and chewy, but not excessively heavy—a fine feat for gnocchi. It was served with a bouquet of mushrooms. In fact, the dish seemed to be more mushrooms than gnocchi, a clever formula that prevented the pasta from seeming overbearing. But the fettucelle ($14) stole the show. We weren’t surprised when we learned that this delicate pasta was made fresh in the kitchen by clearly skilled hands...
...feel at home, like I really belonged here. Erica was the type of friend who actually listened to you when you spoke. She laughed with her whole body. Though my friendship with Erica was brief, I credit her with changing my entire perspective on this school, no small feat. It seemed magical at the time, but after meeting Erica, everything in my life started to fall into place. I realize now that it was not magic but rather the power that one person can have in changing your sense of self...
...galaxy some 420 million light years away that had crossed paths with a dense dwarf galaxy, resulting in a long tail of stars and galactic debris spun off by tidal forces. NASA knew Hubble should be able to show individual stars inside the galaxy, quite a feat at such a distance, about 200 times that of the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. It was a conservative choice, though. Visually interesting, scientifically significant, but hardly ground-breaking...
...Mobile, the newly concluded Milan furniture fair, is the most important event on the design calendar. Each year 175,000 people flock to the streets of Italy's commercial capital to see the new wares on offer by 1,600 companies. Navigating the Milan fair is no easy feat, and the brave first-time visitor who comes without an experienced guide is likely to be overwhelmed by the vastness of it all. There's the trade show bit, hundreds of booths in the Milan convention center, the Fiera. There are the cocktails, held each night at various showrooms around town...
...Madrid Community Sports Stadium, as viewed from the M-40 highway, positively erupts from the ground. A dramatic arc of stadium seating soars out of the grassy meadow, made all the more striking by its elevation above the compressed and linear stands below. The mass concrete is an architectural feat; it is as functional as it is an intense visual statement. The stadium obviously served as the inspiration for the main track and field stadium for the 2000 Sydney Olympics; it also vaults the spectators above the playing field, providing unobstructed sight lines...