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...coming year, his administration has maneuvered to ensure that less than $2 billion will actually be spent. This kind of manipulation has become a signature of the administration: publicize a commendable, “compassionate” new initiative only to let it wither on the Congressional vine for lack of support...
...fewer than eight big-budget action films opening between May Day and Labor Day boast smashing, auto-dynamic set pieces. The multiplex traffic jam started last month with the freeway fracas in The Matrix Reloaded and the Hollywood-and-Vine destruction derby in The Italian Job. This week 2F2F is joined by Hollywood Homicide, with a careering, nonstop trip through Beverly Hills and other L.A. tourist spots. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle will show how car stunts can outdo kung fu. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, mankind's savior will try to keep his Toyota Tundra...
...POTASHBROS.COM This small Chicago grocer's site impressed us with its convenient, 30-min. windows and same-day delivery for orders placed by 10 a.m. Asparagus and vine-ripened tomatoes arrived "perfect and unblemished," our secret shopper reports. Best of all, she adds, "I didn't have to wait in line and worry about my car being hit in the parking lot by crazy carts." Delivery is from...
...eatery has done more to raise fondue's gourmet profile than New York City's Artisanal, a shrine to cheese with a dozen fondues on its menu. Now the molten dip is turning up at all sorts of swank spots, including San Francisco's Luna Park, Los Angeles' Vine and New York City's Chateau. Ohba, a fusion restaurant in Chicago, serves lobster tempura with Brie fondue. And in London, celebs such as Kate Moss and Stella McCartney are regulars at the Tiroler Hut, where the fondue is served by women dressed like Heidi. --L.McL...
...honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa, they concluded, was hardly a gentle ramble through the usual vineyards. Vine growing and winemaking in many parts of Africa, says John, "is as far from Burgundy or California as bungee jumping is from croquet." Highlights included raising their glasses to passing elephants in Kenya, finding winemakers in Muslim Africa where drinking alcoholic liquor is taboo and, on the edge on Réunion Island...