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...color and creed. The faculty ranges from an assortment of Anglo ignoramuses to Iqbal, the greedy, sleazy Middle Eastern headmaster. And when the immigrant students discuss their favorite foods and cultural activities for a diversity-day assembly, they all choose KFC and text messaging. Bromwell is a rude cannonball splash into the 21st century melting...
...gonna get a big splash at this restaurant I'm opening in Los Angeles, which is gonna have a huge pizza oven ... So let's make sure we have 20 of them there, and we can use them all day." Turning your restaurant into a marketing tool works if you're Hard Rock Cafe, but it isn't clear how well it works at the high end. Batali seems to have few qualms: when an assortment of spoons, turners, ladles and skimmers is shown for his approval, Batali says, "All of this will be on display at Mozza...
...another thing, it will be equipped with solar panels, a sensible addition in a sun-drenched place like the inner solar system--and one that reduces the demands on fuel cells and batteries. It will also be able to either splash down in the water as the Apollos did or thump down under a parachute on dry desert. Finally, modern composite materials and computers will improve on the ungainly weight and clanking brain of the older ships. "It's like comparing today's 737s with the ones that flew in 1967," says Scott Horowitz, an associate administrator for NASA...
...Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's caf?...
...perceived stereotypical divide between the Yee-Haw province and Ye Olde Canada grew wider last week when Alberta Premier Ralph Klein plunked down a series of health-care proposals that collectively hit the country like a splash of cold water. Dubbed the Third Way, the bulk of the province's health-care "policy framework" is laudable stuff, though mostly not revolutionary. The first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare...