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...Early morning and the temperature is already creeping into the 30s. A brisk breeze coming off the plains feels like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood...
...days leading up to last week's pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, organizers were worried that one of the proposed slogans, "Return Power to the People," might be too provocative for China's leaders. That was before hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets. Ignoring convection-oven heat and a pollution level at which the elderly and infirm are warned not to go outside, the numbers alone sent a pretty clear, and startling, message to Beijing: Hong Kong has discovered People Power...
...sprawling 10- to 12-course Italian banquet at this intimate offshoot of chef Roberto Donna's celebrated Galileo Restaurant. The menu constantly changes, depending on the produce available, but the evening always begins with a glass of prosecco and ends with bomboloni (a simple, donutlike pastry, hot from the oven). Prices start from $110 per person. Five or six wines, carefully paired with the evening's menu, cost an additional...
While members at the Alaska Club East, a 108,000-sq.-ft. health club in Anchorage, pound treadmills and pump weights, the kitchen staff at the facility's restaurant is getting a workout of its own. Baker Bil Hess hustles fresh strawberry-carob cookies out of the oven, replacing them with a sugar-free carrot cake. Nearby, chef Vicki Carter grills cuts of wild boar, reindeer hot dogs and other local game. Carter and her crew make about 150 health-conscious but palate-pleasing meals a day. "We serve people in swimsuits next to others in work suits," says Carter...
...spent so much time for preparation,” said Tommy’s employee Deep Singh, sprinkling cheese on his latest pie, sans seeds. “It was all about time. And then there was mess on the table, mess on the floor, mess in the oven...