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Chang also dropped her last two sets after taking the first, losing...
...specially outfitted 747 used an onboard laser beam last week to shoot down a missile for the first time. It was, perhaps just as significantly, a flying military-industrial complex all by itself. Boeing (the nation's third-biggest defense contractor) built the plane that carried the laser (built by Northrop Grumman, the nation's second biggest defense contractor) that was aimed by Lockheed Martin (the nation's biggest defense contractor). It took the three companies 14 years (eight more than expected) and $4 billion ($3 billion more than anticipated) to finally shoot down the fake enemy missile over...
...true, it doesn't make any sense at all," says Andrew Friedman, a food writer whose compelling study of last year's contest, Knives at Dawn, came out in December. "It's a leap of faith. First you take the leap, then decide it's something worth doing and then you get obsessed...
Sack points out an often fatal misconception. "What I would hope, first of all," he says, "is that people would realize that just because a drug is prescribed doesn't mean it's safe. It's only safe in a context, and once you change that context and you start to mix it with other pills and alcohol, it's not going to be safe. The public needs education, and I think physicians, when they realize the risks, are much less likely to be pressured into prescribing them when they're inappropriate or, more importantly, prescribing things without adequate supervision...
...world's greatest athletes are currently competing at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the world's greatest chefs are busy training for the premier cooking contest, the Bocuse d'Or, which will take place next January in Lyon, France. In the twelve competitions that have taken place since the first biennial Bocuse d'Or in 1987, America has never won, or even finished better than sixth. (France has won fully half of the contests to date.) Ten days ago, a young cook named James Kent, who helps run the kitchen in New York City's Eleven Madison Park restaurant, was anointed...