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...noon on Jan. 20, Barack Obama will place his left hand on the Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound tome purchased by a Supreme Court clerk for the Great Emancipator's swearing in. He will raise his right hand and repeat after Chief Justice John Roberts these words from Section 1 of the Second Article of the U.S. Constitution: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...university classroom. Maybe this is no surprise - Ritchin is, after all, a professor. But for someone so enamored of the idea that amateurs can beam photographs and their accompanying stories out into the world without the impediment of gatekeepers, it's a little disappointing that Ritchin's tome is clearly aimed at a small audience of professionals...
...what is this tiny tome that provokes such big reactions? It is a parable that can be read in 45 minutes by a multi-tasking minion. There are two "Littlepeople" and two mice. All of them live in a maze. For a time, they have an abundance of cheese to eat (i.e., whatever they want in life). One day, though, the cheese disappears. The mice (Sniff and Scurry) instinctively understand that the paradigm has shifted--they need to adapt and look for cheese in a different place. So they do, and they find New Cheese. The humans are more resistant...
...treadmill in a bid at setting the fastest time for a collective 100-mile run. In Tokyo, a man dashed 100 meters - on all fours - in under 19 seconds. What did these oddball events have in common? Each was an attempt, on Guinness World Records Day, to enter the tome, which for more than a half century has cataloged feats ranging from the ludicrous to the sublime...
Another molecular tome, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Bloomsbury USA; $250), includes recipes like nitro-scrambled egg-and-bacon ice cream that are probably out of reach for amateurs. But, says author Heston Blumenthal, whose Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, England, got three stars from Michelin, "we still have lots of little bits and techniques people can pull out and use at home," like poaching potatoes before frying for crisper chips. Blumenthal, by the way, is not fond of the term molecular gastronomy, which he thinks sounds élitist. "Everything in cooking is chemical," he says. "Water is a chemical...