aside from their sustainable food aspects

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Consider the state of our restaurant life. And when I say

“our,” I mean we as Americans, not just the coterie of

effete gourmands I tend to eat with in New York City. As I

noted here a little over a year ago, the gradual

disappearance of the family chain restaurants – the

Friendlys and Ground Rounds of the world, while far from

tragic from a culinary perspective, is a major loss to our

society. Being able to eat out, at least once in a while, has

for at least three or four generations, been part of the

birthright of most Americans. And eating out should mean

eating a decent meal, with silverware and a server to bring

you your food. One reason so many of us are smitten with

Chipotle, aside from their sustainable food aspects, is the

space they occupy between fast food and traditional

restaurants. But on the other hand, Chipotle, despite its

high quality and moderate pricepoint, is still a cafeteria-

style burrito place.

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Pizza?)

It’s not hard to see how dumbelling happens. As our economy,

and the culture it produces, swirls downward in its spiral,

centrifugal forces are produced that separate out the

extremes. On television, we are seeing some of grossest,

tawdriest content in living memory, thanks to reality shows

like Jersey Shore, Mob Wives, Toddlers and Tiaras and the

like, while at the other end of the spectrum cable generates

masterpiece and masterpiece, from The Wire to Homeland. In

our politics, hardly any consensus exists at all; extreme

ideologies exist in insulated vacuums. And of course it’s no

secret that there are more millionaires and more paupers than

at any time in American history.

As for food, there has never been a time when Americans were

more exposed to the best that world cuisine has to offer. And

there has never been a time when our food was worse. We are

embracing a new, high-minded aesthetic of local, heritage

products, cherished for their flaws and artfully prepared by

chefs of unprecedented skill and commitment; and we are

finding new ways every month to get fatter and unhealthier,

consuming tacos made with Dorito shells, or  arming bacon

explosions. It’s the tweezer or the tongs, with less in-

between all the time.

Friday as Karan Johar

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Tjiptadi is the first Balinese ever to win Miss Indonesia and
she also made it into the top-13 at August's Miss World in
the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos in China.
Her golf career is on hold this year but she plans to focus
on it next season.
"There is so much I want to do with golf. I really want to
help promote the sport in our country and show that it is not
a game only played by wealthy people.
"I also want to get involved in television and host a golf
show. However, playing is what I love and I would still like
to turn professional in a couple of years," she said.
The Enjoy Jakarta Ladies Indonesia Open is the most lucrative
women's national Open in Southeast Asia with the winner
earning $30,000. If it's impossible to release a film on the
same Friday as Karan Johar, it is next to impossible to place
your product in the following week either.
This, Prakash Jha has learnt as his film Chakravyuha gets set
to release after Karan Johar Student Of The Year(SOTY).
Says a source close to Jha, "There is almost non-existence
space for the marketing of Chakravyuha.Every conceivable
advertorial spot on television and other conventional media
for a movie's marketing are reserved for Karan Johar's film.
Jha has to depend almost entirely on theatrical trailers to
put his product before the audience."

involve climate change

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The idea that the Bush administration has placed science
under attack is so commonplace now that it's almost cliché.
It's hard to think of a government agency staffed by
scientists that has not seen voluminous scandals over the
past several years involving either the suppression and
twisting of information or the intimidation of researchers.
The most explosive instances involve climate change and
reproductive health, but more obscure matters--like, say, how
to protect the threatened marbled murrelet--have scarcely
been immune.History tells the story
again and again. Horses buck.
A chariot runs wild, reins ripped
from the son's grasp. Missiles fall.
Below, seeds blow through armored bellies.
A rainbow floats south in the tarry ooze.
The mangled armies clash in the dust.
Villages collapse into sinkholes.
Families lie under debris.
The son says a prayer,
rampaging over charred roads.
By Jeff FriedmanYou could be forgiven for not having heard of
Brooksley Born, the elegantly named lawyer who chaired the
obscure Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the
Clinton administration. It was ten years ago this month that
Born had a memorable showdown in an ornate Treasury
Department conference room with two demigods of contemporary
American capitalism, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan.