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...cooking that’s hard, then. It’s the talking about cooking. “It’s really hard not to use food metaphors,” Katzen says, remembering public television fundraisers where she implored viewers to “fork over their dough.” The message then, of Katzen’s dining-hall-to-home-cooked-meal transition advice, with apologies made for literally using a figurative phrase, is that any graduating senior can stand the heat and should get into the kitchen. Polenta pie awaits...
...Monsters, Inc.--the gold standard in computer-generated imagination. Gold, as in $1.73 billion worldwide gross for that quartet, plus truckfuls more in video and DVD profits. Pixar owner Steve Jobs will need a battleship to hold all the money his current distribution partner, Disney, will need to fork over to renew their contract, which expires in 2005. The two studios now split the profits from Pixar movies, but since Pixar's CGI movies have been grossing nearly twice what the Mouse House's own animated films take in, Jobs wants a more grownup portion of the money...
...Lilliputian in stature? Or too tight, perhaps, to fork out the $20 required to spend a day communing with the spirits of ancient Khmer Kings? Then maybe the other Angkor...
...yard of the pink sandstone splendor of Banteay Srei, and Dy has begun work on his own version of the multi-faced towers of Bayon. But it's his Angkor Wat that takes center stage, drawing the most oohs and aahs from the trickle of visitors who each fork out $1 for a look...
Straying from the traditional graduation rhetoric urging students to be true to themselves and convincing alumni to fork over cash donations, Bok decided to teach lessons of a different sort...