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...Mario Batali's recipe for guanciale, cured pig cheek, has gone viral. Leading the piggy parade is food writer Michael Ruhlman, who has challenged his blog readers to make a BLT from scratch - including homegrown lettuce and tomatoes and homemade bread - shoot a picture, submit it and win a prize: his latest book Ratio. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...grew scarce, derricks popped up all over Pennsylvania's oil region in the 1860s, although subsequent overproduction drove prices so far down that at one point, a wooden barrel was worth twice as much as the oil it contained, according to Daniel Yergin's definitive tome on oil, The Prize...
...first experiment, 203 American undergraduates in South Carolina were offered a choice between a prize pack containing Lay's potato chips - a quintessentially American brand - and one containing British crisps in odd flavors such as "Camembert and plum." After they made their picks, the students filled out questionnaires that measured how much change is going on in their lives. (The questionnaires asked them to rate their level of agreement or disagreement with statements like "I am making a lot of changes this month.") And surprisingly, those undergoing more changes were significantly more likely to have picked the British crisps over...
...never thought this would be my claim to fame - these weird, dumb things," she says. In the end, it may not be. Though Keeley says the blog generates some extra income each month, the real prize is a book deal she's hoping to sign this fall. The recently engaged Keeley says she's hoping the money will help finance her wedding...
...pandemic makes no distinctions.' OSCAR ARIAS, the Nobel Peace Prize--winning President of Costa Rica, announcing on Aug. 11 that he had contracted the H1N1 virus. Arias, who has been mediating talks to resolve the ongoing leadership crisis in Honduras, is expected to recover and will work from home while convalescing...