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Power Ingredients: Rose Water Adds a Subtle Kick

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:46

Just a drop or two of this relatively inexpensive product adds the fragrance of one of the world’s great flowers to your cooking.

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Jobs Unveils New Apple TV, iPod Line

NPR - Technology - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:15

Apple says it will sell a new, smaller version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. CEO Steve Jobs also announced a new line of iPods and social features for Apple's iTunes software allowing people to learn what their friends are listening to.

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Op-Ed Columnist: You Ain’t Seen This Before

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 17:29

With the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Iraqis, President Obama makes an ambitious reach to change the Middle East.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Not-So-Magic Carpet Ride

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 17:04

President Obama’s talking rug could use some quotations that are a bit more timely.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Google’s Earth

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 16:01

Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers.

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Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:12

After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

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Foreign Policy: The Politicization Of Digital Space

NPR - Technology - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 11:58

Whatever Washington does in the digital space these days would almost necessarily reflect on Google -- even if they have no direct involvement in the issue. Evgeny Morozov of Foreign Policy argues the more moves the State Department makes in cyberspace, the more difficult it gets for the likes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to claim that they are simply apolitical operators making the world transparent.

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What Exactly Is The Music Cloud? And Is It Headed Our Way?

NPR - Technology - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 11:00

The biggest obstacle to songs at your disposal anywhere remains the record labels themselves.

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In New York Ballet Companies, Corps Is a Thrill

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:25

For young performers joining the city’s ballet companies, one of the main thrills is often just standing still onstage.

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Florence Journal: Who Owns Michelangelo’s ‘David’?

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:40

The battle over Michelangelo’s masterpiece revealed other disputes over the way Italy’s cultural heritage is managed.

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New Job Means Lower Wages for Many

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:33

Job growth is increasingly polarized between high-paid occupations demanding education and training and low-wage, service-type jobs.

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Court Largely Upholds Florida Law That Put Sharp Limits on Academic Travel to Cuba

Chronicle - Daily News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:00

But the federal appellate judges said the law could not ban such travel if it was privately financed, as nearly all academic trips are.

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U. of Wisconsin Cannot Exclude Religious Group From Student Fees, Court Says

Chronicle - Daily News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:00

Federal judges rule that a Roman Catholic group cannot be excluded from receiving student fees for activities such as worship, proselytizing, and religious instruction.

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U. of Wisconsin Cannot Exclude Religious Group From Student Fees, Court Says

Chronicle - News Blogs - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:00

Federal judges rule that a Roman Catholic group cannot be excluded from receiving student fees for activities such as worship, proselytizing, and religious instruction.

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Court Largely Upholds Florida Law That Put Sharp Limits on Academic Travel to Cuba

Chronicle - News Blogs - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:00

But the federal appellate judges said the law could not ban such travel if it was privately financed, as nearly all academic trips are.

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A Chef in His Getaway Galley

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 04:14

Steve Johnson, the owner of the restaurant Rendezvous in Cambridge, Mass., escapes to a houseboat with a tiny, minimally stocked kitchen.

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A Decade Later, Distress Over Huskies' Troubled Season Still Lingers

Chronicle - Daily News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:00

Two reporters delve into the lack of values seen in the University of Washington's football program during the year leading up to Rose Bowl glory.

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A Decade Later, Distress Over Huskies' Troubled Season Still Lingers

Chronicle - News Blogs - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:00

Two reporters delve into the lack of values seen in the University of Washington's football program during the year leading up to Rose Bowl glory.

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A Cathedral to the Shrine of Nature

NYT - Most Emailed - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 02:53

A new Yellowstone visitor center looks out on Old Faithful as if the geyser were the altar of a new form of cathedral.

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Key Senator Calls for More Federal Oversight of For-Profit Colleges

Chronicle - Daily News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 01:53

Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, argued in a forum he held Tuesday that "too many schools are taking advantage of students and making money hand over fist."

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