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...isolated beach on Spain's Catalan coast near the town of Rosas, El Bulli has become a pilgrimage site for foodies brave enough to make the dizzying drive down for the experience--not really a conventional meal but a series of 25 to 30 small courses, some no more than a bite-size morsel or slurp. They are presented on a silver spoon or on a stick or in a tiny fluted glass, often with suggestions about how things should be eaten--in one go, in separate bites or in a certain order...
...cooking school. In 1990 she became a pastry assistant at Union Square Cafe, one of the many places where she'd waited tables. "I loved it, both because it was immediately gratifying and because I was mercenary," she says. "I was older and a woman, and there are never enough good pastry chefs. The job has the impression of being easy, so women traditionally end up there. The way I see it, you're responsible for one-third of the meal...
Which underscores another point about Middelhoff. "I've learned to be flexible and wait for the right opportunity," he says. "But I have also been very lucky." Lucky enough to have a war chest at a time when Internet assets are dirt cheap...
...Djorgovski and his colleagues used the Keck to take visible-light pictures of a burst first spotted by the Compton Gamma Ray Observer satellite--and sure enough, it came from billions of light-years away. To date, the best explanation theorists have come up with is that the bursts come from "hypernovas," massive stars exploding with hitherto unsuspected power. "I feel really fortunate," says Djorgovski. "This was a world-class mystery, and the Keck allowed us to help solve...
...studying the early universe, the core of the Milky Way and the formation of stars. A bigger drawback is that adaptive optics can currently correct only for a small patch of atmosphere at the center of the telescope's field of view. But pockets of atmospheric turbulence are small enough that a slight change in viewing angle means a whole different pattern of distortions, which in turn requires a different pattern of corrections...