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...Bateman's great gift to be able to make us inordinately fond of a rock-solid average guy. He's become so good at this that it comes as a delightful shock when he plays against type, as in Juno, in which his character turned out to be a jerk, giving the movie just the jolt it needed...
...will then be presented to the U.N. in New York City sometime in October, at which point governments and education officials can either act on or ignore them as they wish. There's a chance that, in the U.S., UNESCO's recommendations will be drowned out by the knee-jerk outrage of conservative pundits. But at least the guidelines can undergo sober and thoughtful examination in more open-minded places ... like Ethiopia...
...unknown biological factor (as opposed to some unknown social or cultural factor) at play, says David Williams, a Harvard professor of public health and African American studies. "The biology is a fall-back black box that many researchers use when they find racial differences," he says. "It is knee-jerk reaction. It is not based on science, but on a deeply held, cultural belief about race that the medical field has a hard time giving...
...assertive. They say there's no I in team. Yeah? Well, there's an I in win. If you're leading a group in Restaurant Wars or any other group challenge, don't be a jerk, but be sure you make the final call--because you will suffer for your teammates' bad decisions. And if you're paired with a guest chef in your finale, don't let him or her take over (as Carla did in her heartbreaking Season 5 finale loss). It's your aspic on the line, not the guest...
...Cheese Chronicles isn't helping high-end restaurants select the right fromage for their dessert menus, she's traveling around the country taste-testing products herself. Thorpe has tried every type of cheese: the creamy, the crumbly, the limp, the spongy and even something flavored with Jamaican jerk spices. TIME talked to Thorpe about unpasteurized cheese, how Swiss got those holes and how white and yellow cheddar differ...