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...from Burma, above. Pilgrim mores often included leaving behind a symbol of a request-like eyes fashioned out of silver for better vision. And, like tourists, pilgrims have been keen to bring home souvenirs, such as a 19th century miniature ivory stupa (Buddhist shrine) or a 17th century collapsible model of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
...Robert May wouldn't cut it as a celebrity chef. His recipes are tortuous to follow, his ingredients are obscure, and he's never available for interview. Yet May is a role model for one of Britain's best-known heroes of the hob, multi-Michelin-starred Heston Blumenthal. May's The Accomplisht Cook, published in 1660, is one of the sources that Blumenthal draws upon to re-create historic dishes. These will be featured at his latest venture, the Hind's Head Hotel, a 17th century public house with an oak-paneled dining room, 49 km west of London...
...return without loss of life to Duba if it had turned around, which the captain reportedly refused to do. Mohammed Abdallah, 41, another Egyptian survivor, told Time: "They didn't tell anybody anything." Shipping industry sources described the doomed 35-year-old vessel as a "roll-on, roll-off" model for carrying cars and trucks, on which the European Union imposed strict safety standards following a string of capsize disasters. Says David Osler, industrial editor of Lloyd's List in London: "It's scandalous that a ship of that age is still in business...
...this country, anyway. But other nations, realizing how successful the U.S. model of scientific research has been, have begun to copy it in earnest. Finland decided back in the 1970s to focus on electronics and a handful of other high-tech industries, and now has the most research scientists per capita in the world. South Korea decided to concentrate on reproductive technology, and although the research of superstar Hwang Woo Suk has been exposed as mostly fraudulent, the country has plenty of other world-class experts in cloning and stem-cell research...
...periodic crises of confidence? In 1957 the Soviets put a tin can into space, and the U.S. thought the sky was falling. In the 1980s we began crying into our soup because Sony was selling so many nifty Trinitrons. "American decline" was all the fashion until the vaunted Japanese model of tight organization and industrial planning took a nosedive and a bunch of twentysomething Americans tinkering in their garages created untold wealth and took over the world...