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...second most powerful person, the panel decided, is Anderson Cooper. Not only were my panelists trying to be nerds, but they weren't even good at it. That's when I ordered a couple of bottles of wine, and the names started flying. The Maloof brothers were instantly agreed upon, since their family owns the Palms hotel in Las Vegas. Body painter Mark Frazier was the artist of choice. Michael Jordan, though he retired four years ago, made the list because, as many of the panelists attested, when you're at a party with him, "Jordan buys...
...best perfumers draw salaries that approach $1 million, including bonuses based on successful fragrance sales. Even for someone with a naturally strong sense of smell, it takes more than a decade of training and apprenticeship to develop a refined understanding of the thousands of compounds smell authors draw upon. "Not everyone who blends a few ingredients is a true perfumer," says Subrenat. "Just as not everyone who burns a steak at home is a three-star Michelin chef." The best scent specialists are so savvy that they can identify the most prominent three "notes" in any commercial product with...
...many have lost the most primal of urges. When pandas reproduce, many cubs have to be cared for by zookeepers because the mothers take no interest in them. Over time, pandas have worked themselves into an impossible ecological niche. They eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and then, depending upon their appetite at the moment, only certain varieties. If the right kind of bamboo is unavailable, they will starve to death. If ever there was an example of a species hell-bent on committing suicide, it is the giant panda. In keeping with the Darwinian concept of survival...
...Adams did not always make it his goal to come here. “Neither of my parents graduated from college,” Adams recalls. “[College] came up as just sort of a wish.”In his youth, Adams took up the clarinet. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, he had already mastered the instrument. “It’s a well-kept secret, but the clarinet is a rather easy instrument to master,” Adams adds humbly. Feeling that there was little for him to learn...
...prestigious award recognizes individual achievement, but Cutler said such individual success depends upon help from others...