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...Bulli may be the most fussed-over restaurant in the world, its 33-course meals the object of countless gastronomic pilgrimages, its 8,000 reservations per season snapped up in a single day, its edible foams and spheres part of the current culinary vocabulary. But since its famous chef, Ferran Adrià, was named a featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary-art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany, El Bulli has become the focus of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike...
...banks and check cashers, the serious competition will come over the next year as Wal-Mart rolls out more than 1,000 dedicated check-cashing outlets in its stores, charging a flat fee of just $3 per check. Check cashers have already responded by sprucing up their offerings. Pay-O-Matic, which operates 100 outlets in New York City, recently launched a debit card that earns 3% annual interest on the unused balance. (Wal-Mart's debit card, on the other hand, does not earn interest.) With such nimble competitors, banks will have to move faster than ever...
...disparity between the new results and the earlier study? Zhang points to the small sample size and self-reported data in the earlier study, compared with Zhang's large cohort and national-registry information. What's more, the focus of the previous study was not abortion per se, but general risk factors for ectopic pregnancy, including women's history of smoking and pelvic infectious disease. "In some ways, they found this association accidentally," says Zhang, "and the author did not provide any explanation. We weren't sure whether that finding was just by chance or whether it was real...
...take a lot of money to beat the liberals. They've got Hollywood and the unions," said Steve Kruse of Ogden, who seemed unaware that Big Oil, agribusiness and a fair number of major auto dealers support his party of choice. Romney was able to purchase (at $35 per entrance ticket) the votes of Kruse and 4,515 others-and it was the prospect of the former Massachusetts Governor's financial firepower that scared Giuliani, McCain and the spectral Fred Thompson away from the event. Romney now has to be considered a strong favorite for the Republican nomination. Giuliani...
...backdoor of upscale restaurants offering a new contraband: caviar. London's hordes of Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund yuppies have sent demand soaring for "black gold," with top varieties such as Beluga now selling for over $3,000 a kilo, whilst the rarest varieties, such as Almas ($50,000 per kilo), whose eggs are white, have a four-year waiting list. The soaring demand for sturgeon roe has created lucrative opportunities for "caviar cowboys," who sell illegally smuggled caviar to unscrupulous chefs willing to turn a blind...