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...celebrity chef/author Anthony Bourdain has argued, how can any meat product be cruelty-free if you are killing an animal? To some chefs the anti-foie gras movement feels like the first step towards demands for completely meat-free menus. Chef Parind Vora, whose Austin, Tex., restaurant Jezebel has been subjected to twice weekly protests by a group called Central Texas Animal Defense, believes that animal rights activists are targeting foie gras because it's a small industry with little resources to fight back. It's also food often associated with the upper crust, allowing the class issues to color...
What may be most interesting about the increase in the number of boomers (and in some cases even their parents) who participate in marathons is that the movement seems to have staying power. Research from Yale University, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere shows that people over 50 who train regularly gain muscle strength and can improve their performance, relative to their potential, faster than people in their 20s. Put another way, it's easier for boomers to slow their biological clock than it is for, say, their kids. Now, that's incentive...
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet brought his world-renowned skills to bear in a compelling performance of “Piano Concerto in G.” The first movement was quick and clear, highlighting Ravel’s jazzier inclinations and showcasing the orchestra’s collective virtuosity as it navigated extreme contrasts in volume and abrupt changes in melodic quality. The second movement’s lilting waltz kept a surprisingly brisk pace, making Thibaudet’s rare indulgent suspensions all the more effective. He maintained a steady sense of rhythm into the frenzied third movement...
...some critics believe Zapatero's calculations may backfire. Paul Rios, general coordinator of Lokarri, a social movement for peace in the Basque Country, sasy: "[Zapatero's] strategy is wrong either way. The PP is still going to come after him, whatever he does. At the same time, by taking out [Batasuna's leadership] he is leaving the door open to the hard-liners, just as the group was undergoing a profound debate on the consequences of the broken cease-fire...
...achieves this reform by overcoming big protests, he'll have satisfied the 50% of public opinion approving the measure, thrill fellow conservatives, and re-establish himself as the formidable leader who inspires the French," says Reynié. "If he fails, he's in serious trouble. The reform movement will be stalled; the left revived, conservative rivals will be emboldened to challenge him, and public respect for him blown apart. But there's no going back for Sarkozy now, and the coming months will be critical to his presidency...