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...network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host of the CBS morning show, which for 50 years now has been broadcast live from the Death Valley of Nielsen ratings. ?CBS SM? was the ideal perch for him, his soothing FM voice replacing Kuralt?s cracker-barrel baritone. The transition was seamless. Under current executive producer Rand Morrison, ?CBS SM? has picked up the pace but never swerved off-course...
...Vagina Warrior,” she says. “Agnes was genitally mutilated when she was a little girl. Her vagina was ripped open, but so was her soul. She said she was going to put a stop to this, so she walked through the Rift Valley in Kenya carrying a plastic model of a woman’s torso with removable vagina pieces, teaching boys and girls about genital mutilation...
...America's Top Toque Napa Valley's Thomas Keller is opening new eateries in Manhattan and Las Vegas. He can cook, but can he run a growing business...
...January, and Thomas Keller, one of the country's most celebrated chefs, has just arrived from Napa Valley, Calif., to the coldest weather in New York City in 10 years. Over the weekend the pipes froze and burst in the new high-rise Time Warner Center building where his restaurant, Per Se, is located, so there is no water. The floor in his kitchen is being re-laid for the third time to get it level. The fire alarm keeps going off with flashing lights and a deafening siren, and platoons of electricians, plasterers and carpenters are working frantically...
...first chef to win back-to-back best-chef awards from the James Beard Foundation, the Oscars of the restaurant industry. Since 1994 he has devoted himself single-mindedly to cooking in the 17-table French Laundry in the town of Yountville (pop. 2,916). The Napa Valley restaurant is regularly rated as one of the best in the nation--and one of the hardest at which to snare a reservation. Keller grosses about $7.5 million annually there, and his 1999 French Laundry cookbook is in its 16th printing and has sold 243,000 copies. He expanded his business carefully...