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...culinary world": late-night shifts at diners, bars and neighborhood joints. Some of it is pure drudgery - like prepping a "literal ton of corned-beef briskets" at an Irish pub the week before St. Patrick's Day - but when the orders start pouring in, the pace and chaos and heat in even a low-end kitchen somehow fuse into a kind of mass lunatic joy. "I am God of the box," he writes, "the brain-damaged Lord Commander of a kingdom of fifty feet by five and made entirely of stainless steel, industrial tile, knives, sweat and fire...
...wrote the celebrated Brick Lane, gets the kitchen just right: the crushing pace, the fistfights, the grills and griddles and salamanders, the guy who's always walking around with a leek hanging out of his fly. But her interest in it is somewhat different from, say, Sheehan's. For Ali it is - at the risk of sending you screaming back to high school English class - a microcosm of Britain, a country that is also, not coincidentally, having a midlife crisis. The kitchen is a strange crossroads zone where high culture and manual labor collide. It's radically globalized and borderless...
...being a liberal approach: a system heavily subsidized by the Federal Government that pays medical providers the same rates they are currently reimbursed by Medicare. Such a proposal would be a battle cry for doctors and hospitals, which are already reeling from low Medicare rates that have not kept pace with inflation, and the private insurance industry, which argues that it could never compete on such an uneven playing field...
...what extent did British concerns about the dangers of American unilateralism trump competing fears about the reliability of intelligence and risk of rupturing European relations? How much effort went into postwar planning? Why did Britain continue to reduce its forces in Basra even as the Shi'ite insurgency gained pace...
...stumbles, Palm might never catch up. The industry sets a blistering pace, and Palm is already late to market. But if anything worries the famously secretive Apple (which, it goes almost without saying, declined to comment for this story), it has to be Rubinstein. He wasn't merely once an Apple insider; he was in the inner circle, a man close to Steve Jobs himself who helped overhaul the engineering processes core to Apple's turnaround. He worked on the top projects at 1 Infinite Loop and, for a time at least, got to see where Apple was headed...