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...pointed to the proliferation of financial engineering techniques??such as credit derivatives and credit default swaps—as methods of “taking bad paper and making it look like good paper...
...fixture in the Harvard multicultural dialogue. S. Allen Counter, the gregarious and garrulous head of the Harvard Foundation, is himself prone to overwrought bursts of sentiment on such occasions. Amid the infamous “Quad incident” of 2007, Dr. Counter denounced the “apartheid techniques?? of the Harvard University Police, who, responding to calls, had checked the IDs of Black Student Association picnickers and allowed their field day to continue unmolested. Dr. Counter is not above retaliatory insinuations himself, either—as he once labeled his media critics...
...novel creations to a packed audience last night in Jefferson Hall. Adrià has pioneered, for example, the art of melon caviar—he combines cantaloupe and water with the chemicals alginic acid and calcic to create the spherification of tiny caviar-like balls. The use of scientific techniques??often referred to as molecular gastronomy or molecular cooking—has formed a basis for the cuisine Adrià serves at elBulli. “In Spain, in high-end cuisine, this is starting to be normal,” he said with...
...preserving French cuisine can be interpreted to mean embalming Coq au Vin, cryofreezing Beef Bourgogne, and xenophobically protecting French gastronomy from any outside influence. But it can also, equally, mean protecting a craft, ensuring the transmission of the knowledge of French culinary techniques??Escoffier’s tricks for making stocks, the proper way to deglaze a pan—and saving endangered produce and small businesses from extinction. Since none of this year’s proposals has been revealed to the public yet, it is difficult to know the French’s exact intentions amidst...
...going to happen until we insist upon certain measures." Although Coleman outlined the ways in which his company would modify the process in order to prevent a situation like this from arising again—using a chemical to reduce the toxic effects of styrene and employing several monitoring techniques??and despite the assurances of an industrial hygienist who said that community members had no reason to be concerned about long-term health effects, those in attendance said that they worried about the possibility of a recurrence. "It sounds like you're planning on continuing this kind...