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...world where prewashed, precooked and preprocessed foods are usurping ever more supermarket shelf space, it's easy to forget the origins of what we eat. For those who enjoy sausage but would rather not dwell on its provenance, this ignorance is bliss. For those with more curiosity, there's a book: Pork & Sons, a collection of ruminations and 150 rustic recipes in which the star isn't bacon, black pudding, salami or Speck, but the creature that is the source of these culinary treats...
...Kabul residents. Handcrafted bamboo and wire cages, festooned with glass beads, dangle from every doorway, and the fragrance of cardamom-laced green tea beckons passersby into tiny chai shops. As bird enthusiasts compare notes on how best to train a pigeon to turn on command, it's easy to forget that Kabul is only just emerging from the depredations of a brutal regime that banned bird fighting, music, even kite flying...
...Drexler, a Bronx Science grad who got an M.B.A., then followed his father, a button buyer, into the clothing business, is always in motion--hence the p.a. system he uses like a high school principal to bark out questions (Who shops online?) and commands (Don't forget to turn off the conference-room lights). On one of his first days, Drexler got on the horn and asked for whoever was in charge of fit to come to his office, a corner blocked off by cubicle partitions. Twenty-five people showed up--with 25 ideas about how garments should hang...
...Forget 4/20. This year it’s all about 4/22 (aka “Earth Day”). “The good thing about Earth Day is that environmental activism can be dismal in a way, but it’s a good time to celebrate the earth, it’s fun. It’s not ‘the end is near’ kind of deal,” Earth Day Committee Co-Chair Deborah W. Kuhn ’09 says of the holiday founded in 1970 to celebrate and protect the planet...
...crematorium, said she was unable to identify either corpse from the photographs, but she added that she found a hip socket and joint-replacement apparatus when she raked the bones out after the cremation. Neither Michael Gerber nor his wife was known to have had hip-replacement surgery. Forget about death. The only sure thing in life is taxes...