In the winter of 1969, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered to computerize your kitchen.Cooking up a gourmet holiday meal will be a snap, the department store promised. Push a few buttons, and — presto! — a shiny orange-red, white, and black machine will compute the perfect five-course meal. No more silly culinary errors. The days of your wife slaving away in her Chanel apron will vanish...
Ex-’Price is Right’ model gets $8.5M in damages
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The producers of “The Price is Right” owe a former model on the show more than $ 7.7 million in punitive damages for discriminating against her after a pregnancy, a jury determined Wednesday.The judgment came one day after the panel determined the game show’s producers discriminated against Brandi Cochran. They awarded her nearly $...
Recipes for Health: Apple Pear Strudel — Recipes for Health
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesThis strudel is made with phyllo dough. When I tested it the first time, I found that I had enough filling for two strudels. Rather than cut the amount of filling, I increased the number of strudels to 2, as this is a dessert you can assemble and keep, unbaked, in the freezer. Filling for 2 strudels: 1/2 pound mixed dried fruit, like raisins, currants,...
Suicide Drones, Mini Blimps and 3D Printers: Inside the New Army Arsenal
Label: TechnologyFlying grenades. Mini spy blimps. Robotic bomb-busters. Suicide-vest spotters. Battlefield 3D printers. The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war. And the gear that's required is very different from the hardware that came before. Most American soldiers used to live and fight from massive bases, complete with all sorts of creature comforts and heavy defenses. Today's troops...
Elmo left behind on ‘Sesame Street’ as actor exits
Label: Lifestyle
NEW YORK (AP) — Even on “Sesame Street,” where everything is famously A-OK, problems can arise for its residents.And that includes the Muppets. Cookie Monster grapples with an eating disorder. Oscar the Grouch gets cranky. Mr. Snuffleupagus gets the blues.
But Elmo seemed immune to any of that. Since enjoying his breakout...
The New Old Age Blog: Patience, Consciousness and White Lies
Label: HealthMy wife and I are blessed with having three “semi-independent” parents in their mid-80s living within a few blocks of us. Our children grew up knowing their grandparents as integral parts of our nuclear family, within walking distance for most of their childhoods. But now that our nest is empty, we find ourselves reliving many of the parenting issues we faced when our children were little — now in...
Square Feet: Nashville Gambles on Appeal of New $623 Million Convention Center
Label: BusinessNASHVILLE — Nearly four years ago, as Tennessee was hemorrhaging tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, the Metro Council here passed a measure to create a three-mile tax district around a site that will soon open as the most expensive publicly financed complex in the state’s history: a $623 million downtown convention center whose campus stretches the length of more than a dozen football fields....
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Feds charge former hedge fund manager in big insider-trading case
Label: World WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a former hedge fund portfolio manager with securities fraud in connection...
First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People
Label: Technology A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident.Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School is studying how we evaluate people we meet. Cuddy is known for her research on power posing, which she presented...
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