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Shaun is a proverbial fish out of water. A talented and aspiring writer, he feels suffocated by the insanity of his family life and the monotony of his surroundings. Desperate to escape from Orange County, Shaun begins searching for the answers, which he finds in the form of an epiphany-inducing book buried in the sands of the local beach. The book inspires Shaun to take action, and he dedicates himself to getting into Stanford, where Marcus Skinner, the author of the book and his newfound idol, is a professor. Given his impeccable academic record, his acceptance is a sure...
CuraGen of New Haven, Conn., is one of the innovative firms that have refined this art. Its proprietary technology--an adaptation of a decade-old technique--allows CuraGen's scientists to put human genes into yeast cells and effectively "fish" for proteins relevant to drug discovery. "We learned at the seat of the inventor of this technology," boasts technology group leader Bruce Taillon, "and showed him what would happen when CuraGen was set loose on it." The company stunned the biotech world in January, when it announced a 15-year, $1.4 billion deal with Bayer to develop drugs against obesity...
...Tour, a companion to his book of the same name (Bloomsbury; $25.95; 274 pages). In Kitchen Confidential, which became a surprise best seller, Bourdain drew a super-testosteroned picture of the guys who make French fries--and served up insider's secrets, including why people should not order fish on Mondays. In A Cook's Tour he takes even less advisable gastroenterological risks as he searches the globe for exotic foods. In one episode of the show, Bourdain toasts the Bam!-meister with a glass of cobra blood: "Hey, Emeril, why don't you kick this up a notch...
...writers. It's a learned toughness: he's by nature a softie, a prep-school kid who went to Vassar to follow a girl he had crush on (whom he later married). But after two years he dropped out of college to work in a series of kitchens--including fish shacks where he chopped onions alongside ex-con fry cooks--before earning a degree at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America. Now Bourdain is worried about how he's going to keep his edge while appearing on the Emeril channel. "Cooking is quantifiable...
...dinner, Reyes ignores his aches and pains and concentrates instead on the food?fish and rice, one light beer?the friends (all men) he's assembled around him, and, later at a karaoke bar, the lyrics to Before You Go by Matt Munro and Englebert Humperdink's The Way It Used to Be. That weekend, he took his bad eyes and bad elbows to the Tokyo-9 Ball Tournament and won the most lucrative event in the sport, pocketing about $160,000. The following weekend, he won again, this time in Warsaw, Poland. Still, he continues to say that...