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...focused on their cooking, daring to break into smiles only when their platters had been paraded past the judges. In the end, Hollingsworth said he was proud of what his team accomplished, but that he thinks he understands why they didn't place higher. "What we do is more modern. It's not in the style of the Bocuse," he said. "American food is a little more refreshing." As his girlfriend, Kate Laughlin, waited with tears in her eyes, a reporter asked Hollingsworth if he would ever participate in the Bocuse again. "No," he responded with characteristic firmness. "I think...
...spot along the queue outside the hospital lay a pile of rocks dubbed "fertility stones." The thought was that their proximity to such a miracle of reproductive biology - five girls! - might help mothers who were finding it difficult to conceive. Modern society has no need for good-luck charms, however. All one needs is nine months, several thousand dollars and a good...
...Beginning projects for expanding the electrical grid for alternative energy requires everything from relocating workers, obtaining local permits, and drawing up the plans designed by engineers. The goal of the program is noble, as are the goals of creating better access to broadband and building more modern schools. None of these programs can be set up quickly enough help stanch the outflow of jobs...
...most prominent, old-style African despots, liberation heroes who quickly turned on their own people once in power and presided over catastrophic corruption, incompetence and human rights abuses. His departure, even a mere dilution of his power, would herald the end of an unhappy chapter in Africa's modern history. Second, the success or failure of South Africa in resolving the crisis is seen as a crucial test of Africa's ability to manage its own affairs. Third, ending the political dispute in Zimbabwe is also the necessary starting point for pulling Zimbabwe out of humanitarian disaster. If credible power...
Burns wrote in Scots, a dialect that looks familiar but confusing to modern English speakers (he penned "Auld Lang Syne," which most of us can pronounce but not interpret). In 1786, he published his first book of poems, on everything from religious hypocrisy to a typical Scottish Saturday night. The poems were catchy, sarcastic and light; the book was an instant success. Like a struggling actor who lands a part on a major sitcom, the fame came hard and fast - everybody in Scotland suddenly knew...