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...breast of duck with a pomegranate molasses glaze ($39.95 for two servings) by Charlie Palmer of New York City's Aureole, the other for the molten chocolate cake with caramel custard sauce ($12.95) from Manhattan's Gramercy Tavern. At first I was a tad overwhelmed by the 10 plastic bags that the ingredients came in. Luckily, assembling the spread turned out to be as easy as painting by numbers. Since Impromptu's meals come refrigerated instead of frozen like FiveLeaf's, I didn't waste time defrosting...
...were capable of making such a meal myself, it would have taken me all day to shop, chop and cook. As it was, my toughest task was poking open the plastic pouches. In fact, my big complaint has little to do with the sites. After eating so well, I can't imagine going back to my real life of stand-up meals and leftovers. Now I long for filet mignon...
...America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes burned away to free the copper underneath...
...Koreans also used to pay for everything in cash. But with credit cards readily available and tax breaks for using them, shoppers are pulling out the plastic. Says Seo Eun Hee, an office assistant at Seoul National University: "It's easy and fun. I spend more than I used to?before I couldn't go into a department store and buy whatever I liked." Last year, $235 billion worth of merchandise was purchased on credit, up from less than $50 billion in 1998. Koreans are stretching their purchasing power in other ways. The government used to shoo banks away from...
...year-old graphic designer. He's super-hip, never smiles, has a pierced right ear and sports a few tattoos. A skate-rat, he wears low-rise shorts (to show off his boxers) and DC shoes. Oh, and he's 30 cm tall. And made out of plastic. But Maxx isn't just another Ken or G.I. Joe doll. Maxx has attitude?and a cult following. So does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend...