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...like Regis Philbin. Come to think of it, The Limits of Control is like a Bourne film, except one in which everything goes smoothly for Jason, the workdays include a lot of napping and there's no blood, although cinematographer Christopher Doyle does regularly frame our hero against sumptuous red surfaces. At the climax, when confronted with a seemingly impenetrable fortress, instead of scaling walls and snapping necks, our hero just thinks his way inside. No fuss, no muss...
...really caught on, but the meat certainly has. In the past three years, Australian sales of kangaroo have increased 30% as it has gained more cred as a healthy and free-range alternative to lamb and beef. Now, with a recession in full swing, the relatively inexpensive, lean red meat is moving even faster. "Sales are going through the roof," says Ray Borda, owner of Adelaide-based Macro Meats, a meat-processing company that sells about 200 tons of kangaroo meat per week. "One, it's cheaper. Two, it's better for you. Three, it's better for the environment...
...Today, roo meat is sold as everything from sausage filling in Russia to a high-end game meat served in Australia's best restaurants. "It's a sweeter meat that has no visible fat marbling. It's very lean," says Ray Mauger, executive chef at Adelaide's Red Ochre Grill, which has been serving it since the 1980s. Kangaroos are mostly harvested in the wild for population control, hunted at night by licensed shooters who sell to processing plants. Only four out of 55 kangaroo species can be culled for commercial use. In 2002, the national quota...
...dresses for her four daughters when they were children, her walk-in closet was a patchwork paradise. I sewed the fabric squares; Granny insisted that the right angles met in 90-degree perfection. (No wonder my mother became an architect.) The flashing needle tacked together vestiges of white dresses, red-checkered shorts, turquoise blue blouses and a dusty-rose colored skirt. Nothing matched, but that was the point...
...local hamburger chain b.good. As extra incentive to sign up, the first 100 people to subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered to win prizes ranging from Red Sox tickets to an iPod touch, set to be raffled off May 2 by the Harvard T stop. The site is an unorthodox venture for Unofficial Tours, which is known for running cheeky campus tours year-round and for competing with the official Crimson Key Society tours for tourist attention. President and founder Daniel...