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...Japanese writers underscores sushi's current international cachet. Corson argues that that popularity is actually undermining sushi's quintessential Japaneseness: it has become a truly global food. Indeed, he tells his story primarily through a young American woman training at a sushi academy, not in Tokyo, but in Los Angeles. Corson spends altogether too much time describing her floundering "battle with fish" (in his view, becoming a sushi chef is only slightly less difficult than becoming a surgeon, and requires a considerably stronger stomach). But his book is also peppered with fascinating diversions into the macho culture of sushi bars...
...orchestra and began conducting them. The ascent of his career since then has been breathtakingly swift: the winner of a major conducting competition at 23, he was offered Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at 25; then, in April, on the strength of only two guest appearances, the storied Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that the 26-year-old would succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director...
...Arellano, an undocumented immigrant who had spent a year holed up at Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church while defying a deportation order, made a risky move: she emerged from the storefront church, drove from Chicago to Los Angeles, and gave a series of very public speeches over the weekend. By Monday, the 32-year-old single mother was in Tijuana, having been arrested and deported in one fell swoop...
...People like to think the environment is something out there, not connected to them," says Lorin Lindner, a Los Angeles psychologist who specializes in the emerging field of ecopsychology. "But we are not divorced from this biosphere. The more you learn, you realize that squirrels are part of a greater environment, that we are all connected. When you get one strand of this awareness, you start worrying...
Until a year and a half ago, his personal life was particularly uninteresting. Efron was living at home, having his mom drive him to auditions about twice a month in Los Angeles, where they would sleep on a cousin's couch. He got a few guest roles on TV shows, but his parents gave him 12 months to make a living as an actor or else he'd have to go to USC, where he had deferred his freshman year. Time was about up when an actor friend told him he'd tried out for a Disney musical, and Efron...