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Adria began his presentation with a brief film that offered a visual approximation of the experience of dining at El Bulli, and then, as his friend, Harvard microbiology professor Roberto Kolter translated, the Catalan chef launched into an entertaining and impressive discussion of the science of his cuisine. He focused on his discovery of new textures - particularly the magical uses of hydrocolloids and liquid nitrogen to give foods shapes they'd never assume without the intervention of innovative physics. The crowd exhaled collective "aaaahs" as if they could almost taste the bejeweled concoctions being assembled on video before them - perfect...
...spent two successfully inebriated hours trying to take a friend’s shirt off—not because I wanted to seduce him, but because I just really disliked the way it fit. Perhaps most disastrously, I once made out with the quasi-love interest of my best friend, leading to my removal from her gchat, her phone, and her heart for several lonely weeks...
...what I was putting down, so I sacked up: I waited until she left and then furiously searched for her on Facebook. Her unprotected profile and explicitly “single” status was a less than subtle hint that she wanted it. We had only one friend in common: Milosz Cherepanovich, the Albanian kid from my freshman entryway. Since I was very confident that Europeans had more sex than Americans, and somewhat confident that Albania was part of Europe, I sought him out for advice. I mean, let’s be honest here, seeing this...
...That did not deter the governor, apparently. The same day, Blagojevich suggested starting a nonprofit lobbying organization, known as a 501(c)(4), which he could eventually work for, and proposed getting Obama's friend "Warren Buffett or some of those guys to help us on something like that." In a separate conversation on the same day, he suggested that Obama and his associates "can get Warren Buffett and others to put $10, $12 or $15 million into the organization" and then suggested that he could retire from the governorship to go over to the organization...
...caveats, there is something stupendous about Deng's achievement. (This magazine certainly has long thought so; he is one of only four non-Americans to have twice been named TIME's Person of the Year.) A friend of mine in Hong Kong describes what is happening in China today like this: Think of a quarter of the world's population - with all its good and bad, beauty and ugliness - rejoining the mainstream of human development after centuries when it stood to the side...