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...Jefferson to indignantly justify yourself to a professor or other authority figure. 14. Win a Purple Heart. 15. Use your Viking skills to score an entrance visa to Minnesota, and then take the dairy-creamery business by storm using wit and courage to win over the consumers of the Southwest. 16. Drink 100 cans of Bawls in one sitting and chill with Death for a little while in HeartAttack City before escaping gloriously on the wings of an angel who looks strangely like Drew G. Faust. 17. Play Super Smash Brothers on Nintendo 64 until you enter a new dimension...
...Friendly Air. Southwest is now welcoming pets aboard. For a pet fare of $75, you can bring small cats and dogs in the aircraft cabin, as long as they are in a carrier that fits under the seat. The carrier counts as your carry-on bag allowance, but unlike most other airlines, Southwest doesn't charge for your first two checked bags. Pet-fare tickets go on sale June 1 for travel beginning June...
When Chef Anne-Sophie Pic was awarded her third Michelin star in 2007, she became the first French woman so honored in more than 50 years. You might have expected her to open a restaurant in Paris on the strength of it (her base is Valence, in southwest France), but as with her cooking, she likes to confound expectations. For her next move, Pic has taken over the dining room at the grande-dame Beau-Rivage Palace hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland. The reconfigured space is as pared down and elegant as her cooking, even...
...marks the first anniversary of the devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China's southwest that killed an estimated 86,633 people. In the past year, Beijing has poured billions of dollars into the region's reconstruction, and hundreds of thousands of people who were left homeless after the disaster have found shelter and begun rebuilding their lives. But many parents whose children were killed one year ago today remain incensed about the apparently shoddy construction that led to what some allege were a disproportionate number of schools collapsing. Despite what human-rights activists say has been a campaign of intimidation...
...debate boils down to what's worse: the outrageous behavior by some American troops, or the prospect of angering Muslims that could endanger U.S. troops in southwest Asia. The question is especially pointed just as U.S. troop reinforcements, ordered up by President Obama, are now beginning to arrive in Afghanistan to battle Islamic Taliban forces. At the same time, his Administration is trying to keep neighboring Pakistan, and its nuclear weapons, from falling under the control of Muslim militants...