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Bless-this-mess chefs looking to make something more exotic than green-bean casserole this holiday season are in luck. Fall brings a trio of cookbooks from world-renowned molecular gastronomists whose kitchens look a bit like chemistry labs, with all those centrifuges and tanks of liquid nitrogen used to make carrot foam and whiskey jellies. This hyper-whimsical style of cooking has caught on at many a celebrated restaurant, but are these books--whose recipes call for ingredients like calcium lactate--even remotely useful for home cooks...
Second, a stimulus package--the tax rebate of 2001--was widely credited with helping end that year's downturn. The good timing was in part luck; President Bush had been pushing for a tax cut whether there was a recession or not. But it showed that fiscal stimulus could work...
...attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death tolls can be attributed to luck. "We haven't had a big earthquake beneath one of our metropolitan centers yet," Allen says. "For example, in '89, the quake started beneath the mountains. There was some damage in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, but San Francisco was more than 60 miles away. When an earthquake occurs...
...Good luck with that, responds Terry Miller, director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington. Miller says that while certain common agreements to increase transparency of financial markets may be acceptable, Obama - like Bush - won't "allow large and vital sectors of America's economy that thrive on innovation to be fenced in" by international accords. And while he thinks Sarkozy's efforts to raise expectations about what the summit can achieve are misguided, Miller does see a logic to meeting to discuss the crisis...
...silver lining - for consumers anyway - may be discounted goods at the 155 outlets that the chain announced late last week it would close. JPMorgan's Christopher Horvers reported flush inventory and 10% off everything from TVs to notebook computers. Good luck finding a salesperson...