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...between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell and its I'll-be-whatever-texture-you-choose- to-cook-me-into submissiveness--wants to be messed with...
...Graves. Fire couldn't erase Hall's favorite memories of the place, including a visit from Salman Rushdie at the height of his fatwa, but recently his family made the difficult decision to put the property on the market after 32 years. "What we couldn't face was the shell of the house without all the things that made it what it was," he explains. "If you built it again, it would almost be more painful than just keeping it in memory...
...battle for energy supplies among countries heavily dependent on imported oil and gas, which include the U.S. and the E.U., plus the rocketing economies of China and India. That necessity is a powerful weapon in this new battle. Shortly before Christmas, Russian President Vladimir Putin forced Royal Dutch Shell to cede control of Sakhalin II, the world's biggest oil and gas project, to the state-owned giant Gazprom, opening the North Pacific island's vast resources to Asian markets. The $7.45 billion price was small to Gazprom, whose value has soared from $9 billion in 2000 to $270 billion...
...This is the British library," says Fanah, indicating a shot-up shell of gray rubble splashed with RPG marks and heavy-caliber bullet holes. "I had a library card and I used to come here and read my novels. Roots - that really affected me. And James Hadley Chase. He writes about violence. With romance in between. I used to read him all book in seven or eight hours...
...takes a mentoring shine to her, perhaps seeing in her something of himself, independent and instinctive. He finds her a job (posing nude for an art class), takes her to the theater, even lets her accompany him on a film location, in the process dragging her out of her shell of ignorance and indifference...