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...with three Michelin stars can expect to gain several kilos and drop several hundred euros. And prices are rising like one of L'Arpège's avocado pistachio soufflés. In 2001, the set menu there cost 1,200 francs (€185); now it's €420 per person - no wonder nice guys from Winnipeg weep into their pinot. OK, so I've been known to spend more on one meal than most would in a week. That's between me, my therapist and my accountant. The million-dollar question is, can it still be worth...
...Number of females per 1,000 males in India...
...most persuasive piece of evidence in the new study, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and published in Nature, is a graph that shows both annual changes in average temperature and the number of frog extinctions per year on the same grid: the jagged lines track each other with eerie precision. Species die-offs follow warm years 80% of the time. With tropical air temperatures from 1975 to 2000 rising three times as fast as the 20th century average, things should only get worse...
...DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1999 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka?with its frosted bottle, C?zanne-inspired label and $30-per-bottle price tag?and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego, California. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in the rambunctious U.S. college-student market and began importing the near-unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases...
...week. Harvard University Health Services (UHS) saw roughly 15 Cabot students suffering from gastroenteritis between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal. This represents a spike in occurrences, said Rosenthal, who added that UHS generally sees between six and eight cases of gastroenteritis per week in the winter. The increase and concentrated area of cases suggest that the virus was likely “communally transmitted, or came from one common source” within the House, said Rosenthal. Gastroenteritis is more likely in the winter than in other times, as more people tend...