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...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...
...backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker from the southern California enclave of Laguna Hills, paid a real estate agent $700,000 for it, with the intent of one day living there and making it an educational institute, vacation spot and retreat center, akin to Esalen in Big Sur. But because "personal family concerns" make it difficult for Krall and his family to move north now, Bridgeville is back on the market...
...between the two communities will not close until the French of immigrant descent are properly educated and trained and the nation can give them real jobs and decent housing. Knowing my countrymen, I figure that will take a while, if it ever happens. Bernard Goussault Le Perreux sur Marne, France Heroes Give Hope Thank you for your extensive coverage of global health [Nov. 7]. In a world that is becoming more and more interconnected, the problems of people in Africa or Asia are also those of the West. Trying to solve them means that we will make the world...
...hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation, tel: (1 831) 667 3047. Oh yes, and you can only visit between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Sure, that's exactly the kind...
French jihad? Algeria's revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the mid-1960s than they do with the Islamist extremism behind 9/11 or the attacks in Madrid and London. The driving forces are socio-economic injustice and racial segregation, not a thirst for infidel blood on the march to a global Caliphate. The infuriated youths burning cars and stoning police in the dismal suburbs of Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and beyond are demanding a piece of France's modern...