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When Chef Anne-Sophie Pic was awarded her third Michelin star in 2007, she became the first French woman so honored in more than 50 years. You might have expected her to open a restaurant in Paris on the strength of it (her base is Valence, in southwest France), but...
So there are people like her, of course - and I've gotten to know her now over the years. So there are those grande dames, those amazing women who obviously stand out. But in terms of whose stories stay in my head, it's my mother's, my aunts', my...
McDonald's might want to stay aggressive, because Starbucks won't go away quietly. The company is introducing a grande iced coffee for under $2 this summer, and the company has said it will lower prices on basic drinks in some markets. Starbucks has also just launched print ads taking...
The border suffers the bulk of the drug war's carnage - and perhaps because of that, it's where some of the freshest ideas for fighting the war can be found. A tragic wisdom has emerged at this dusty junction of developed and developing worlds. On one side of the...
A long-term antidrug strategy doesn't need the sort of hysteria that has had some in Washington comparing Mexico to failing states like Pakistan. "Obama needs to throw a bucket of cold water on that kind of rhetoric," says Tony Payan, a Mexico expert at the University of Texas...