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...practitioners of this unsung profession are being hung out to dry. "We're left trying to hold the system together like MacGyver - with duct tape and scissors and string." TIME caught up with air traffic controller Melvin S. Davis, a 22-year veteran and the facility representative for Terminal Radar Approach Control for Southern California, which serves airports in Los Angeles, Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, Palm Springs and San Diego...
...Eisele was directed to Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry to develop a reading list on food and taste pairings. Berry added a detailed review of the neurobiology of taste to Eisele’s sommelier literature on wine.“Beer has been under the radar in the culinary front in the past,” Eisele says. “Not a lot of people in the U.S. would picture beer as being the perfect complement to a meal.”The course focused on the physiological response when food is introduced into...
...Europe and the United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
...only got published because you’re young and marketable,’” she says.She describes her first photo shoot, a spread of the “lit world’s new ‘it’ girls” for Radar Magazine, with a wry sense of humor. “They put me in a tiny leopard print minidress with gold platforms and a gold belt and hair like this,” she says, gesturing expansively. “I mean, I looked like a 45-year-old Russian prostitute...
...compliment than to complain. Though Macedonia packed its bags in disgust, Georgia and Ukraine managed to put some positive spin on events. And though Washington was disappointed, there was success for the U.S. on its plans for a missile defense system after the Czech Republic agreed to allow a radar system to be built there...