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...genes have proved so ill equipped to handle. We, the species that invented barbecuing, that domesticated corn and wheat and that created foie gras and French fries, have powered through a series of food revolutions, says Oxford University historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his recently published book, Near a Thousand Tables (The Free Press). The purpose of the next revolution, he predicts, will be to undo the excesses of the last...
...sailboat, it has often been said, is a hole in the water into which one pours money. Weekend sailors joke that boat is an acronym for Bring Out Another Thousand. A used 18-ft. sloop can cost $10,000, while a new 36-ft. two-masted ketch can run $100,000 and up. And then there's the maintenance and the commitment to sail from a single port. Sailing courses, however, free their students from these costs and limitations. That's because U.S. certifications are accepted in most ports around the country and the world. Graduates can use their certification...
...personal shopper. For $1,500 a day, she'll take you and your friends to the chic boutiques in Paris and make sure you get the treatment from the snooty sales assistants that your hard-earned greenbacks deserve. But just in case you don't have an extra few thousand to unload, here are some of her secrets. They should work at the mall...
Their fans are appreciative. "I've been listening to them for a thousand years," claims Noah Friedman, a chatty 6-year-old. "I know their Bean Bag Dance and Five Little Monkeys and other songs. But I really like Bear Hunt because I can listen and move and run, and...I just like...
...Lake, there were no tears and little anger. This is the fifth time in a decade that the Yangtze and its tributaries have threatened to turn much of eastern China into a lake. Nobody has died on Orange Island this year, although rising water and landslides have killed a thousand people across China since June. (Another quarter of a million, say government officials, have fled for higher ground as floods destroyed 27,000 homes.) This year's flooding doesn't compare to the devastation in 1998, when 4,000 people perished. As the weather improved...