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...want to understand how quickly the very rich are becoming very richer, don't read about hedge funds, alternative-minimum-tax revenues or acquisitions by private capital. Those things are boring. Look at the difference between the change in the average price of a restaurant meal in the Zagat restaurant surveys and the change in those singled out in its America's Top Restaurants 2008 guide. The price of the average restaurant meal went up 2.3% last year, while the average price at the places that make Zagat's top list went up 3.8%. But if you look...
...would think that increasing the Tour from $175 to $195 would have an effect on demand, but the overall percentage of Tours we sell on any given night has increased steadily," says co-owner Nick Kokonas. In fact, the restaurant wound up dropping its comparatively cheap $85 prix fixe meal, since no one was ordering...
...basis of past studies that correlated these factors with diabetes in women. The authors believed that these correlations were important because they speculated that sensitivity to insulin is also related to ovulatory function in women. Currently, Harvard University Dining Services works closely with HSPS and Willett to design meal plans. Not only are our dining halls free of trans fats, they also provide other fertility-friendly options daily, according to HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. These foods include low glycemic carbohydrates like whole grain pasta and bread and protein from healthy sources like soy beans and chickpeas...
...drug use are muted by Scott’s use of bright, saturated colors in costuming and setting, which fit perfectly into the 70’s era funk-feel of Harlem. Additionally, Scott inserts comedic interludes to break up the melodrama, whether laughing and talking over a family meal or cracking jokes at a club. Even the aura of the crime world itself is lightened by the presence of Cuba Gooding Jr., who plays a comically overdressed small-time gangster with a loud, Flavor Flav-esque personality. Despite serving a necessary mood-lifting purpose, Gooding...
Sometimes books serve as pathways to the pleasures we are incapable of obtaining in real life: Flying and spells for readers of Harry Potter, hot and easy women for readers of Maxim, and, for me, a good meal. This summer I got my first taste of financial independence—and of being broke. I realized that exorbitant meat prices meant that I was going to become a de facto vegetarian, a horrible fate for someone whose truck back home bore the bumper sticker, “I didn’t claw...