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...when something's exactly horizontal or vertical, is the season's hottest new gadget for the toolbox. These high-tech levels are useful for hanging pictures, putting up shelves or hanging wallpaper without having to mark up your walls with pencil lines, which are necessary with old-fashioned manual levels. But beware: some models stick to the wall with tape or pins that leave holes or marks that are just as annoying to cover up as pencil. Look for levels that mount with a suction cup, like the Ryobi AIRgrip Laser Level ($40), above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ray of Light | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook is not your average cooking manual. Bourdain, never one to hold back, once referred to vegetarians as "the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." The book is written in the same brusque style, and its language can get a little profane. The introduction to poulet r?ti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amuse Bouche | 12/18/2004 | See Source »

...returned to the Boston area in 1974 and took a series of manual jobs, moving frequently. At one point, he worked for Sylvania Lighting, replacing light bulbs...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

With training-wheel features for amateurs, plus manual control for pro shooters, the D70 will boost the ego of anyone who pretends to know what an f-stop is. nikonusa com ($1,300 with basic lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Picture Perfect | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook is not your average cooking manual. Bourdain, never one to hold back, once referred to vegetarians as "the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." The book is written in the same brusque style, and its language can get a little profane. The introduction to poulet rôti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recipe For Making Trouble | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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