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...Russia, as its oil and gas boom of the past few years comes to a sudden and wrenching stop, leave behind the garish consumerism of Moscow and drive 220 miles (354 km) southwest to the small Russian town of Lyudinovo. For the first part of the five-hour trip the road is a smooth four-lane highway that whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles, you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows...
...middle of the Catskills. "They say it was one of the best meals of their life," he says. Likewise, Michael Fiorello of Chicago's Mercat a la Planxa was with a girlfriend a couple of years ago in an area without an open grocery store, so after a trip to CVS, he worked up a pizza with canned pineapples, canned corn and Spam that went over pretty well. "I don't know why people knock it," he says of the oft maligned spiced ham. Celebri-chef Kerry Simon is also a Spam defender. "Anything you can think of that...
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...bastard brother of Portishead’s “Third,” another album that fans waited over a decade for. “Third,” released in April, seduces the listener with labyrinthine tracks, sounding like pared-down, refined versions of the trip-hop trio’s old songs. (Metallica also scaled down their sound for “Death Magnetic.”) Guns N’ Roses has taken the opposite tack as Portishead and Metallica, slapping a sanctimonious album cover on 14 floppy messes and billing the resulting album...
...home record this season, recent history would suggest that conditions are favorable for Harvard as it enters this critical series against an opponent that is tied for seventh in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Building on that strong home record is especially important given that the road-trip losing streak has left the momentum of the Crimson’s season uncertain. The team begins the second of five straight non-conference games in preparation for the heart of its ECAC schedule, which begins in January and February. “We feel comfortable at home, and we?...