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...Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches...
...nurses' main attraction is their reasonable prices. Nurse Mary Baker, who heads a clinic called Chicken Soup Plus in Sacramento, charges only $30 for a pre-employment physical, far less than the $50-to-$75 fees that the city's doctors command. And, yes, she sometimes prescribes a pot of her own chicken soup, which she drops by a patient's home. Jean Sweeney-Dunn, who runs Community Nursing Services for the Elderly in Elmira, N.Y., asks $2 for a urine test and $5 for a blood-sugar analysis, a fraction of what a physician would charge...
...most nurse entrepreneurs did not go into business to make a fortune. In fact, Baker of Chicken Soup Plus says that her current income after expenses is not as high as the $30,000 to $36,000 that she once earned as a public health nurse. The value she puts on her independence, though, more than makes up the difference...
...Duck Soup today...
...outside work, the monks only keep four of the eight daily offices prescribed in the Rule of St. Benedict, the definitive ninth-century handbook for spiritual reflection. After rounds, they meet for a midday service of psalms and prayers at 12:30 p.m., followed by a lunch of soup, salad, and bread. At 5:40 p.m., they have choir practice, with evensong at 6:00. After that, the community has supper, and then, on talking days, they have recreation at 7:00 p.m. "We all go up to the top common room, chatter for half an hour, and make cocoa...