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...emotional estrangement from the U.S. now evident in Europe can't simply be wished away. It may transform itself into a "cafeteria Atlanticism" - wariness in general, coupled with recognition that there will be places both sides need to do business. When Blair chose to fight the anti-American mood inside the Labour Party at its annual conference last week, he picked for guest speaker the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa - a Hispanic environmentalist and public-transit advocate from a state that just passed into law a version of the Kyoto accords. By the time he finished, the delegates were...
...Bravo’s “Workout?” She’s cute, she’s witty, and sometimes, at the very end of an episode, she even manages to deliver a meaningful lesson about the ways that eating healthily and exercising regularly can transform our lives. But don’t let that scare you away—your motivation to do anything vaguely physical will give out after you, like me, realize you can’t do more than eight push-ups in a row.…Perform full choreographed routines...
...will support postdoctoral fellows as well as a lecture series in bionanoscience, a relatively young but rapidly expanding field that examines life on the nano-scale. “Understanding life at the smallest levels could offer dramatic changes in both basic biology and, on a more mundane level, transform a trip to the doctor’s office,” according to the original planning documents for the institute. “The intersections among biology and engineering represent some of the most fruitful in basic and applied research.” The new institute will focus...
...been working for five years you think, is this it? You've got your car, your apartment, you can buy nice T shirts, but there's a need to create some value." The "virtual" dimension of work in an IT-dominated society also leaves him wanting more. "You transform data into a really good Excel spreadsheet for the next chain in the process, but what do you actually make? There's nothing like the satisfaction of doing something practical, with a physical result." If it sounds like the corporate world has a spiritual yearning, it's also true that...
...time," he says. Although the Gastrovac clearly has show-off potential (Martínez admits his team has already tried impregnating ordinary button mushrooms with the flavor of truffles), Torres and Andrés, who call themselves "artisans," hope it will be used primarily to enhance - not transform - ingredients. Torres himself, for example, uses the machine to prepare desserts like cherries penetrated with vanilla and spice that still, remarkably, have the firm texture of freshly picked fruit. And Dufresne, chef at New York City's wd-50, eagerly awaits the arrival of his recently ordered Gastrovac to experiment with improving...