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...premise that ambition is the "Need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cut-throat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they also make the pie bigger so that there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years ago. Mary Jacobs Dallas...
...Eric Hometown: Dallas, Texas Favorite ice cream flavor: Boston Cream Pie at Baskin Robbins Favorite book: Crime and Punishment Concentration: Anthropology Ideal date: Dinner and dance on a cruise ship Best pickup line: Don’t need one Horoscope sign: Pisces Christina Hometown: Baltimore, MD Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate peanutbutter cup Favorite book: Great Expectations Concentration: Linguistics Ideal date: A picnic on the beach Best pickup line: I just moved you to the top of my to-do list Horoscope sign: Virgo
...maybe two, to replace departing head chef Charlie Ayers, who once cooked for members of the Grateful Dead. A search committee has been meeting with candidates. We're not talking meat loaf and bug juice. In a recent tryout, the executive chef from an acclaimed area restaurant prepared sugar-pie pumpkin lasagna and cedar spring lamb chops...
...probably pretty high. That means Einstein?s trick of light is almost certain to yield others. So while this isn?t quite the discovery astronomers have been hoping for, it?s a signal that finding a close twin of Earth may not be too far off - or too pie...
...juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks...