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...food originating within a 150-mile radius of Mountain View. I knew this radius included a glorious fund of farms, ranches and fisheries, the Salinas Valley food shed that Steinbeck made famous in East of Eden. I also knew that as one of the most successful companies of the era, Google could afford not only to pursue such a whimsical culinary ideal as total locality but also to do so in the form of a fine-dining restaurant. (Café 150 is one of 11 employee eateries on the Google campus, all of which famously charge nothing...
...Presidents and presidential candidates have long felt pressured to conform to unnatural and confining standards. Those who couldn't meet them often pretended that they had. One of the strictest requirements, since Andrew Jackson inaugurated the era of the common man, has been that the President fulfill what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called...
...Prada dispatched a team of researchers to one of the original mills in France, and 10 days later, using old machines that had been out of service since the 1960s, they reproduced exactly the same fabric with the kind of quality she was looking for from the earlier era...
...some disquieting economic data. On the same day that Shanghai stumbled, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that orders of durable goods in America-a key indicator of economic health-had fallen sharply in January. That followed an unnerving speech by someone many consider the great economic forecaster of our era, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. On Feb. 26, he warned in a speech that investors couldn't rule out the possibility of a U.S. recession in 2007, noting that corporate profit margins "have begun to stabilize, which is an early sign we are in the later stages...
...that today's French-language artists just don't achieve," says Cécile Prévost-Thomas, a sociologist specializing in French song. Piaf's success abroad reminds the country of a time when its cultural exports could achieve popularity while remaining defiantly French. The passing of that era is lamented amid the proliferation of American Idol?style reality shows and young French stars singing in English. "Today, songs are detached from the lives of popular singers," says Prévost-Thomas, "but Piaf's are personal and sincere...