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...current ubiquity of the runny egg, however, isn't just due to Spanish influences and the greenmarket movement, which fetishizes purity and simplicity. It benefited from the other major 21st century food trend: high-tech cooking equipment. There is a quiet tug-of-war going on in restaurant kitchens between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell...
...Vista looks pretty. The edges of the windows are now transparent, like little glass microscope slides. Vista - blatantly following the trend set by Apple - represents data as translucent and jewel-like and faintly glowing. Subtle shadows, gleams and animations enhance the illusion. It's just cosmetic stuff, but given how much time one spends there, it's nice when one's desktop doesn't feel like a soul-leaching cubicle. (To assuage the Mac faithful: yes, many of Vista's features are pilfered directly from Mac OS X, and in general Apple has shown itself to be far more efficient...
...movie. Iwo Jima, released by Warner Bros., was made for a miniaturized $15 million. The other three entries were sponsored by the art-house subsidiaries of major companies: Paramount Vantage for Babel, Fox Searchlight for Sunshine, Disney's (not the Weinstein brothers') Miramax for The Queen. This verifies the trend last year, when four of the films nominated for Best Picture were "indies...
...better with the class’ schedule. It was a “good fit with the number of students I have and the type of course I teach,” he wrote in an e-mail. Though Maxwell said he is unsure if there is an increasing trend towards earlier finals, he would support such a move. “It would be much healthier for everyone to have a sensible winter break and a sensible time!” he wrote. —Staff writer Van Le can be reached at vle@fas.harvard.edu...
...chain-management to big customers. TAL Apparel, which makes 1 out of every 7 dress shirts sold in the U.S. at its factories in Asia and North America, nimbly adjusts production for major customers like JCPenney based on weekly sales results. In a practice linked to the "fast fashion" trend, retailers can send orders to TAL each week. TAL then ships out the product in four days or less--emergency orders can be rushed through in a mere four hours. TAL sorts the goods into boxes for shipment to each individual retail store, rather than to a warehouse...