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...medieval science of alchemy sought to transform base metals into gold. Aaron Patterson, the chef at Hambleton Hall, is an alchemist of tomatoes who turns the humble salad staple into something precious. He infuses the fruit into sorbets and foams, shaves it as thin as carpaccio or, in his signature dish, essence of tomatoes with Scottish langoustines, distills it to a clear soup of startlingly intense and glorious flavor...
...years, as the metal oxidizes and turns green, the leaf-shadow illusion will deepen, drawing the $135 million museum further into the surrounding vegetation even as its metallic diagonals continue to resist being absorbed visually by nature. "We like to talk about paradox," says Herzog, "this thin layer masking things. In some lights this building almost disappears. In a different light it's very sculptural. Then in San Francisco you have the fog, which penetrates the perforations. We like that...
Privacy is a pipe dream at Harvard: we live in exceptionally close and crowded quarters, often separated by paper-thin walls, fire doors, and flimsy partitions. But the fire door arrangement is particularly precarious because one push can open up an entirely different world, and even modulated voices can offer a constant soundtrack...
...constitutional law. Bush’s mistake was in failing to choose someone who fulfilled the first attribute while also nominating someone of unknown judicial expertise. Harriet Miers might have still been confirmed had she consistently demonstrated a high level of constitutional acumen. This was how, despite a relatively thin paper trail and his refusal to state explicitly his positions on certain constitutional issues, former deputy Solicitor General John G. Roberts survived his nomination process to become Chief Justice. On the contrary, many of the senators that spoke with Miers were less than enthused with her knowledge of the Constitution...
Pity the skateboarder who messes up on a jump and slams down on his feet or a skier who hits a slalom gate at 70 m.p.h. While better protection is the obvious answer, skaters want thin sneaker soles so they can feel their board, and skiers are reluctant to relinquish any flexibility. Enter snowboard-loving British inventors Richard Palmer and Phil Green, both 39, and their new material, d3o, which can perform a few high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock...