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...March 27, 1977, a Pan Am 747 awaiting takeoff at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands off Spain was sliced open without warning by a Dutch KLM jet that had come hurtling out of the fog at 160 m.p.h. The collision left twisted metal, along with comic books and toothbrushes, strewn along a half-mile stretch of tarmac. Everyone on the KLM jet was killed instantly. But it looked as if many of the Pan Am passengers had survived and would have lived if they had got up and walked off the fiery plane...
...just shy of his 39th birthday, is the leading light of molecular gastronomy, an emerging school of cooking that emphasizes the science of cuisine--like understanding why meat is best slow-cooked at 136° (higher temperatures cause the proteins to tighten up and release their juices into the pan). "The name molecular gastronomy is quite bad," says Blumenthal. But his food, despite its seemingly flagellant ingredient mixtures, is superb. The Fat Duck, Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray, 40 minutes west of London, was named best in the world by trade title Restaurant magazine last week, and if anything, the acclaim...
...occasion was the fourth Ivy Film Festival, an event run by Brown undergraduates in an attempt to foster the pan-collegiate community of filmmakers. The three-day festival featured film and screenplay competitions, hours of screenings, discussions with alumni working in entertainment, lunches, parties, and visiting artists...
...Paddington, the highlight was when the Dorchester based Dis-N-Dat Steel Pan Band got a small group of audience members out of their seats and dancing. “With the Dis N’ Dat band, I think the crowd really appreciated their performance. It was great to see a number of people dancing on the floor and having a great time...
...woman named Diana Aubourg was giving a talk to the W.E.B. DuBois Society program—an academically rigorous Saturday school program of African and African American studies for gifted and talented black youth—for which I tutor. Aubourg, director of program development in Africa for the Pan-African Children’s Fund and a scholar of development studies with a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an in-depth and impassioned presentation on the extent of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa...