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...rule for approaching the high-stakes tables of Paris is the same as in Monte Carlo: know your game, never play with more than you can lose and still have fun. Fun is the whole point of eating well. But these are tough times. Fine dining is experiencing a wave of popular interest just as prices are soaring out of reach for many. "Destination restaurants" are becoming a one-time splurge for the curious. That, in turn, could lead to slipping standards if most diners are too intimidated to complain - and the rest are too rich to care. Dedicated foodies...
...Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1992, he has collaborated with the Dalai Lama to study the brains of Tibetan monks, whom he calls "the Olympic athletes of meditation." Using caps with electrical sensors placed on the monks' heads, Davidson has picked up unusually powerful gamma waves that are better synchronized in the Tibetans than they are in novice meditators. Studies have linked this gamma-wave synchrony to increased awareness...
...wave of research upended any of our popular notions about creativity...
...Guillermina Jasso, "the racist elements of immigration law were abolished." Annual per-country quotas shot from 100?yes, 100?for most Asian nations to 20,000, with preferences for close relatives of U.S. citizens and those skilled in fields with labor shortages, like medicine. The new law unleashed a wave of immigrants who came to the U.S. to further their education or get a better job. By 1980 more than 190,000 Indians?some 90% of them college educated?had arrived. About 13,000 Korean doctors, pharmacists and nurses got green cards. The Filipino population in the U.S. nearly quintupled...
...Haitians are angry that the UN force has done little to stop the wave of kidnappings and other criminal violence that have cast a shadow over the election, but MINUSTAH officials insist that their mission does not extend to fighting crime. Last week, a general strike was called for January 9 to pressure the UN to take action to halt the violence. Despite an increased presence of troops on the streets, few residents of the capital, Port-au-Prince, feel safer. The seaside slum of Cite Soleil, where most victims are taken, is off limits to almost everyone other than...