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...what you say sounds like [Omnivore's Dilemma author] Michael Pollan's edict - eat food, not too much, mostly plants. It's a very basic idea. Yeah, and don't eat things your grandmother wouldn't recognize and don't eat things that have more than five ingredients. There's very little Michael says that I disagree with. Not to take anything away from him, but he doesn't do recipes...
...writers. If you did good work for him, he couldn't do enough for you. He gave me so much space, and he let me try anything. He was an incredible leader in that somehow he would suffuse everybody--the writers, the illustrators, the designers, the photographers--with the idea that this is the most important thing you'll ever do and this is the time to do it. That's what animated people. It's very rare in this world...
...Southern France he gave his wife for her 30th birthday - making sure it retained all the elements of a gift, while being enjoyable for him too. So, after putting her through an arduous hike up a steep cliff from the Riviera town of Eze-Bord-de-Mer (his idea of fun), he made sure there was a birthday cake waiting for her at the ritzy Chevre d'Or restaurant in the village at the top (everyone's idea...
When Humayra Abedin left the U.K. on Aug. 2 with a round-trip ticket to Bangladesh after hearing that her mother was sick, she had no idea the "illness" was a ruse to lure her home to marry a suitor of her parents' choice. But on Dec. 17, Abedin, a 32-year-old doctor who has lived in Britain for the past six years, confirmed in a statement that she had been held captive for four months in her native country and coerced into a marriage by her mother and father. "I was forced to marry a person...
...Compton, WGN's Senior Vice President for Programming Entertainment, received email complaints as well. "I'm getting attacked," he says. "I had 10 emails this morning, and I don't know how they're getting my address." Compton, who came to WGN from radio, originally came up with the idea after stumbling across the radio plays on the Internet one Christmas Eve a couple years ago. "These are shows that haven't been heard in 60 years. You'd think if anything, the traditionalists would be like, 'This is really cool.' Mitch Thrower, son of the Yule Log's creator...