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...Gish Jen's witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting pot to be seen...
...table in front of him clear except for a half-eaten piece of blackberry pie, the well-worn home plate from Iowa's Field of Dreams baseball diamond in the aisle next to his seat, Kerry talked about the race, his opponent, his record and his plans--but not about his doubts, if he has any. "I think we are doing extraordinarily well," he told TIME. "I think this is a close race, and it's going to be a close race. I feel very confident in where we are and confident about the direction of this race...
...diet-conscious diners, restaurants are jumping on the new trend. In New York City, at Pinch, pizza is sold not by the slice but by the inch, while the restaurant Cru provides wine by the half glass. And the Post House offers spoonfuls of strawberry shortcake and banana-cream pie for people who want a lighter dessert after a steak-house-size meal. At the Meritage restaurant in the Boston Harbor Hotel, guests can order just a spoonful of entrees like flash-fried Nantucket scallops, or chicken, porcini mushroom and truffle salad. Chef Pino Maffeo at L in Boston offers...
...been hoping to see for 18 years, and now it’s finally happening,” he said. “You can’t imagine how exciting it is that within one’s own lifetime, you can see something go from a pie-in-the-sky possibility…to now being able to see such studies happening within the next two years...
...play actual (rather than synthesized) songs, a battle is brewing. Mobile operators and the small outfits that supply the synthesized songs - Finland's Jippii, Italy's Buongiorno Vitaminic, France's Musiwave and Germany's Jamba! - are clashing with the big record labels over whose slice of the ring-tone pie should be biggest. But how did an unlikely innovation like ring tones get to be such a big business in the first place? It's definitely not about the music. Most ring tones are only about 20-30 seconds long, and until recently have had at best...