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CoCoRo Restaurant of Chicago has long served shabu-shabu to expatriate Japanese businessmen, says owner Katsuhiro Niki. But lately, on weekends, 80% of his customers are non-Japanese. Harmony Watling discovered shabu-shabu during her honeymoon in Bora-Bora and had "so much fun" using chopsticks to swirl paper-thin slices of beef in the bubbling cauldron of water (the Japanese word shabu-shabu comes from the splashing sound). Local reviews call shabu-shabu "great date food," which puzzles Niki. "It's not for couples," he says. His wife Hitomi explains, "It's messy...
...evening in February 2001. I showed up without ideas, without any clue at all as to how a magazine works or what the rules of the journalism game are. But I’m a little obsessed with magazines and it was easy to get caught up in the swirl of story lists, writers’ meetings and FM soirees. And it certainly didn’t hurt that on my first long assignment I was teamed up with the already-elected, already in-The Crimson-know Rachel E. Dry. We were supposed to write a 2,000 word article...
...it’s very strange to be the topic of a book (I’m not even dead yet! I’m 43 years old!). And although the facts seemed right, and he caught wonderful things that I’d forgotten in the mad swirl of everyday work, I didn’t savor the book on round one. It scared...
Back at the bomb site, rumors about al-Hakim continued to swirl. It was not until 5 p.m. that his death was confirmed, and by then about 80 bodies had been counted. With more than 150 injured, the main hospital in Najaf was straining to cope with the load. "This is a catastrophe for Iraqis," said Hassan al-Naji al-Moussawi, imam of the Mohsen Mosque in Sadr City, Baghdad's Shi'ite-dominated suburb, once known as Saddam City. "And for it to happen at the walls of the Imam Ali shrine, it's as if somebody has reached...
...It’s very exciting because it’s a great big swirl of a movie and a story I’ve loved since I was 16,” Nair says. Despite the long hours and tedium of editing, she sounds says she is excited about the process: “We’re jamming, baby...