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...favorite stories in this issue, a special supplement to TIME, is about the current trend in no-frills dining. Major chefs like Joël Robuchon of L'Atelier and David Chang of the Momofuku empire are forgoing the usual dining-room luxuries like linen tablecloths, flowers and bread baskets to focus instead on great food and even greater prices. Some of these forward-thinking chefs are going so far as to forfeit waiters too, choosing to serve the food themselves. Needless to say, their establishments are packed. And customers are more than willing to wait...
Today is Cyber Monday, the day for shoppers to surf the Web for special deals. As more people feel comfortable making purchases online, Web retailers expect to draw a rising share of holiday purchases. But with the credit crunch and financial meltdown contributing to the massive pullback in spending, will Cyber Monday be an Internet boom or bust? "I would say bust," says Jon Vincent, founder of BlackFriday.info, an online-deal site. Analyst Ken Cassar of Nielsen Online is little more optimistic. "Cyber Monday will likely be disappointing," he says...
...cool our homes in the future. For poor families, especially those on fixed incomes, a drafty house can eat up a large chunk of their income in the winter. The leakier the home, the more money you're wasting - and the more carbon you're spewing. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...community that can result from bringing students together around issues of social justice should not be mutually exclusive from the community that develops around campus parties or Harvard-Yale. As human beings, we have a responsibility to think about people beyond our immediate community, and we have a special opportunity as Harvard students not only to encourage our peers to give back but to shape the way they view their role in the world. Given that historically Harvard has churned out future leaders in every field, it is especially valuable for us to encourage our peers to think about...
...Crimson’s special teams managed to shut down five power-play opportunities for BC, who held a .211 conversion rate on the man-advantage coming into the contest...