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Start with the space: a grand, high-ceilinged dining room in downtown's Hotel California, with a black-and-white tile floor, lush faux-leather booths, refurbished chandeliers and, at its center, an inviting horseshoe bar. This is the second home for the restaurant founded by chef Eric Tucker - a wunderkind whose interest in healthy eating was spurred by a youthful passion for long-distance running and the realization that he was hypoglycemic. (See pictures of San Francisco...
Washington will have at least started that process when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Mexico today for a two-day visit. In response to growing fears both in Washington and along the border that Mexican drug violence is spilling over to U.S. soil - Attorney General Eric Holder recently called the cartels a "national security threat" - the Obama Administration on Tuesday unveiled a border-security plan that will put more than 500 federal agents in border states. More significantly, the plan calls for stronger measures to reduce U.S. narco-demand, cut off weapons-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more...
...fresh idea comes from Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent, who in a March 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed suggested that insurance commissioners mediate the ratings process, since insurers are among the largest buyers of rated bonds. Regulators would collect a fee from insurance outfits and then use the money to buy ratings for everyone to use. If the ratings proved too rosy over time - or inaccurate in another way - regulators would switch to a different ratings company...
Minutes later, sophomore attacker Dean Gibbons carried the ball behind the goal and found senior defenseman Eric Posner cutting in front of the net. Posner caught the ball and one-timed it past Hegener for the score...
...French winemakers fear that the new rules will allow any producer to mix their surplus whites and reds, flooding the market with cheap, poor-quality rosé. "We are shocked by these plans," says Eric Rosaz, director general of the Association Générale de la Production Viticole, France's winemakers' association. "We have our own traditions in France, and we want to protect them. We want to ensure that French rosé remains a quality product and is recognized as such. But this proposal could force thousands of winemakers out of business...