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...that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted to go to graduate school in the U.S. "Back then," he has said, "China was a depressing place." Li applied to 20 universities with computer-science programs. Only one, the State University of New York at Buffalo, offered him a scholarship. "So I packed up my winter coat," he joked in an interview with Time last spring, "and went." (See pictures of life in the Googleplex...
...good citizen and greatly respected." An essayist in Time conjured Holden at 40 as a Columbia alum who left his PR job to become a country club golf pro; divorced and remarried with two daughters, he ended up teaching at a prep school in dangerous, dirty 1970s New York. For the many of us who’d identified with Holden in our adolescence, it compounded our horror to learn that John Lennon’s murderer carried a copy of the novel in his pocket when he pulled the trigger and imagined himself as the Holden who lived...
...wood strips to cook venison. He looks at the young Spanish prodigy Andoni Luis Aduriz, who has come up with a limestone slurry with which to gel-coat his vegetables. At this level, you're paying for technique, not what some guy can pick off the trees. New York culinary bad boy David Chang said as much recently when calling out his West Coast rivals for "just serving figs on a plate." Chefs need to do something. A love of nature is great, but it doesn't get you seawater when you're in the desert...
...that time: by the 1970s, the so-called fresh-food revolution was on, and Alice Waters was serving statement salads at her influential California restaurant Chez Panisse. The idea got bigger and bigger and won the hearts of Gen X chefs in the 1990s. What New York magazine critic Adam Platt called "haute barnyard" had come to define America. Words like seasonal, local and, best of all, green market were shibboleths for every self-respecting cook from potato peeler on up. It made for a lot of roasted heritage pork and hand-foraged hen of the woods mushrooms...
...Anti-American sentiment was further stoked Wednesday just hours after news broke of the three U.S. personnel killed in Koto, when a New York City court convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist, of the attempted killing of U.S. personnel after she had been captured in Afghanistan. The verdict triggered an outpouring of rage across the Pakistani media and political class, which has long championed Siddiqui as a victim of alleged American brutality...