2011-03-07
Krugman on the benifits o' Edukashun
Degrees and Dollars
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 6, 2011
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 6, 2011
It is a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. Everyone knows that the jobs of the future will require ever higher levels of skill. That’s why, in an appearance Friday with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President Obama declared that “If we want more good news on the jobs front then we’ve got to make more investments in education.” More
Doyald Young, 84, Designer of Typefaces, Dies
By STEVEN HELLER
Published: March 6, 2011
Published: March 6, 2011
Doyald Young, a logotype designer and teacher whose three monographs on letterforms and alphabets, including the provocatively titled “Dangerous Curves,” reintroduced classical design principles to designers at a time when inelegant lettering was in vogue, died on Feb. 28 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 84. More
A Chemist, an Artist and a Lot of Fizz
Caroline Mak, left, an artist, and Antonio Ramos, a chemist, started Brooklyn Soda Works in 2010. They draw on their day jobs in concocting new flavors.
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: March 5, 2011
BY day, Antonio Ramos is a medicinal chemist at the drug maker Sanofi-Aventis in Bridgewater, N.J., where he helps develop molecules for prescription drugs.
In the evening, he puts his chemistry skill set to a different use: developing formulas for Brooklyn Soda Works, the artisanal soda company he started last year with his partner, Caroline Mak. More
Sake-Steamed Chicken: Who Needs Crispy?
By MELISSA CLARK
Published: March 4, 2011
STEAMED chicken is not the kind of dish that makes my mouth water. It sounds like bland diet food, better spoon-fed to someone feeling under the weather. More
Related Recipe: Sake-Steamed Chicken With Ginger and Scallions
What are they thinking?
Who's going to support the drug dealers and liquor stores in southern california now that Charlie Sheen's been fired?