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...opened the renowned French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley, which offers tasting menus of up to 15 courses, each with tiny portions. "I want to leave the impression with guests that 'I wish I had another bite of that.' Then you know you've hit them at the peak," says Keller. His "four bites and you're out" philosophy was once regarded as eccentric but more recently has won over an increasing number of top-line chefs. This year the Zagat restaurant guide for San Francisco declared, "The graze craze is here to stay...
...Shore, a member of the Office of the Vice President for Finance, the Corporation’s warning was guided by “recent market trends”—namely, declining endowment value. The University’s holdings decreased in value from a peak of $19.2 billion in 2000 to $17.5 billion as of last July, the last date for which figures have been released...
...simulates a true weightless environment by flying in repeated parabolas, achieving free-fall as it arcs downward at the peak of its flight. The “microgravity” conditions last for approximately 25 seconds, during which all the teams inside perform their tests...
...hooked up a group of Buddhist meditators to IVs containing a radioactive dye that he hoped would track blood flow in the brain, lighting up the parts that were the most active. But the only way for Newberg to freeze-frame the exact moment when they reached their meditative peak was to sit in the next room, tie a string around his finger and snake the other end under the door and leave it next to the meditators. When they reached meditative Nirvana, they pulled the string, and Newberg released the dye into the subjects' arms. His results showed that...
...Cisco Systems, Listwin, now 44, was tapped in August 2000 to head up Openwave, a company formed by the merger of Phone.com and Software.com Initially, it was expected to profit from a coming wave of interest in browsing the Internet on the small screens of cell phones. At its peak a year later, Openwave boasted $500 million in annual revenue and a share price of $125. But by mid-2002, Openwave shares had plunged to 43--freighted by the telecom bust and by the firm's particular missteps. "This was not a trusted company," says Listwin. "It had a reputation...