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August 13, 2008 Breaking News

The Most Influential Chefs in the Bay Area (and Perhaps the Country)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:52:49 PDT
From Serious Eats From left: Alice Waters, Tony Gulisano, Charles Phan, Thomas Keller, Paula LeDuc. Photographs from the San Francisco Chronicle Michael Bauer, the San Francisco Chronicle's food critic, kicks off an informative series in today's paper: Many national dining trends have their roots here, and it's where dedicated food lovers and chefs from around the country come to play and get inspired. Great cooks are everywhere - at a neighborhood bar, in a modest storefront restaurant a

CBC averts disaster (The Globe and Mail)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:47:51 PDT
Network narrowly escaped a technical calamity during its telecast of the opening ceremony

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Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:00:03 PDT
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Rethinking ‘critical thinking’

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:45:11 PDT
“Critical thinking” courses “promise better grades and higher test scores,” notes Jay Mathews in the Washington Post. But they work only “as a measure of the gullibility of even smart educators.” Mathews quotes Daniel T. Willingham, a cognitive scientist at the University of Virginia. Critical thinking, he explains in a summer 2007 American Educator article, overlooked until now by me, is not a skill like riding a bike or diagramming a sentence that, once learned, can be applied in many sit

UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:50:42 PDT
Scientist warns of mass ocean extinctions ... Origin of brain tumors in children found ... Study determines why chili peppers are hot ... Hepatitis B 'nanovaccine' is developed ... Health/Science news from UPI.

Tribune's 2Q: Three Numbers Stand Out

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:58:31 PDT
There's little intrigue in Tribune's second quarter earnings announcement. As the company says, "Our publishing results are, for the most part, in line with industry trends, which remain consistent with what we reported in the first quarter." Such consistency, unfortunately, is not something you want to be a part of. All the print numbers are now trending down: Advertising revenue generally: -15% Classifieds revenue: -26% Circulation revenue: -2% And the kicker, online revenue: -4%, as Tribun


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