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...home state, but she's also mesmerized by it, and she sets out to get to the bottom of what makes California Californian. She parties with Arianna Huffington, lunches with Warren Beatty and does yoga next to Nicole Kidman. She studies with nutty mystics in Big Sur. She rents out her house as a film location. She visits California's failed desert communities and explores its complex water-management system. (She can get a little wonky at times--"Water flow is measured in acre-feet...
...them with policies of her own. She has made a tough anticrime drive central to her efforts. "It's hard to convince a kid or even entire families making twice or three times as much as they would working legitimate jobs to reject dealers." That's why in Epinay-sur-Seine, a suburb to the north of Paris, reform means cracking down on dealers. Jean-Michel Genestier, chief of staff to the mayor, says, "Each time there's been any letup in police pressure on dealing, we've seen related crime and general insecurity rise as thugs figure the coast...
...talented researcher, and caring clinician,” the statement said. When he studied at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), a training program for biomedical engineers and physician-scientists from both institutions, Ty performed creative research on neural development and plasticity, according to Mriganka Sur, a neuroscience professor at MIT who worked with Ty on his research. Sur, who is also head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, said that Ty was “a very nice, kind, decent man” and “a first-rate scientist...
...finished versions of new items in his cookware line for the first time. A $100 risotto pan weighing an astonishing 12 lbs. came out first. "Wow," Batali said proudly. "You're not gonna be lifting this up with one hand." But there was bad news: the kitchenware chain Sur La Table wouldn't be buying the pan--"too niche," apparently...
...enthusiasm isn't unique. At a dinner with Sur La Table executives that evening, I mentioned to Kerin Seeger, the company's vice president of merchandising, that at my local Sur La Table store, Batali's cookware was crammed onto a lower side shelf. Seeger looked horrified. On the spot, she unleashed her cell phone and left a pointed message for an underling to call her back. It was a theatrical gesture, but she didn't seem to be doing it for Batali, who was well out of earshot. "We love this product," Seeger told me emphatically...