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...intellectual and artistic boundaries of his culinary empire. But I think I've said too much. And before I knew it, the dinner was over and everyone was kissing each other farewell on both cheeks - before I had an opportunity to ask if Ferran could put in a word for me when I next e-mail for a reservation at elBulli...
...origin of the word condom is unknown, though the story of a certain Dr. Condom in 19th century England remains one of the more persistent myths. The term at least trumps intravaginal pouch, a phrase suggested in lieu of female condom by an FDA panel tasked in the early 1990s with reviewing an early prototype of the women's contraceptive...
...economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. This is the other side of Putinomics: TV and many major press outlets are firmly under state control, and media outlets that aren't have become nervous about printing the truth. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted...
They've got to keep their word. Either you're for a smaller, less intrusive government or you're not. They've got to return to first principles. What they need to stand for is limited government, fiscal responsibility, and they need to be focused on staying out of people's lives...
...National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - to call what the U.S. economy is experiencing a recession. Just a few days later, after the Labor Department announced that U.S. employers shed 533,000 jobs in November and 1.2 million since August, some were agitating to ditch the R word and replace it with the more ominous D one. "Shall we call it a depression now?" asked former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "The threat of a widespread depression is now real and present," argued the University of Maryland's Peter Morici...