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...centers rather than one: a conventional literary center, governed by mainstream publishing - with its big names and fancy prizes and high-end art direction - and a new one where books rise to fame and prominence YouTube-style, in the rough and tumble of the great Web 2.0 mosh pit. The two centers will affect each other gravitationally and swap authors back and forth between them, but they're not likely to eat each other. With any luck, they'll energize each other...
...this spring, when I heard that an upcoming barbecue competition on our block would pit me against Stock (Dorfman's next-door neighbor), I quailed. Stock is a barbecue bully. During the last cook-off, he planked a salmon that was epic - and he never stopped gloating about it. Now, with the Great Chicken Grill-Off only weeks away, he was mincing about with a plan to kill his own poultry. And I? I had nothing...
...cooker wasn't cool enough, Love handed me a palm-size thermometer. "Viking recommends you use this," he said of the DigiQ II ($260 from thebbqguru.com) With a tiny fan and two temperature probes - one for inside the pit and one for inside your food - the DigiQ ensures stable heat by using the fan to stoke the embers. It also sounds an alarm when your meat's cooked...
...Chairman Ben Bernanke and the big-bank CEOs who have taken taxpayer money to clean up companies' balance sheets. If Warren's journey from Harvard to the center of the emergency financial-rescue effort were a movie, it could be called Out of the Library and into the Snake Pit. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...competition, Theissen explained, will pit "the best drivers and the best teams ... against each other. This will take place within a stable set of regulations and a transparent management structure. We will also take into account the wishes of the fans, who have lent us a great deal of support, particularly in recent weeks...