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☆ Move Over Hot Chicken, There’s a Hotter Chicken in Town
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Ligaya Mishan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 2019, the American fast-food chain Panda Express introduced a limited-time-only special it called Sichuan hot chicken. Never mind that the dish would have been unrecognizable to anyone in Sichuan, a province in southwestern China. The menu promised numbing Sichuan pepper in the sauce. But all seemed to agree that the hot chicken was not, in fact, hot. Nor did it offer much of the heady tingle of Sichuan pepper (not a chile, despite its name), which at its most potent can make your entire mouth buzz like a hive.

Persons: fryer, Chiles, carmine, gentlest Organizations: Panda Locations: Sichuan, China

☆ James McBride Doesn’t Read Reviews. Here’s Why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Between these poles are all forms of social media; and, on a different continent but still the same planet, reviews printed in the font you’re reading now. When it comes to all of the above, James McBride takes a page from Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Like the titular clerk, McBride prefers not to — in his case, read reviews. I’m grateful that people read the work. If you’re writing about humans, you’ve got to be around humans. The big secret to writing good books is to stay around people, and not stay around what they write on the internet.”

Persons: James McBride, Herman Melville’s, Scrivener, McBride, “ I’m, ”, Danez Smith, ” McBride, “, I’m, I’ve, —, you’ve Locations: Columbia

Taiwan's constitution states that the Republic of China is a sovereign state, and that has been a consensus shared by all Taiwan's main political parties. The Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists, who set up the People's Republic. "It is because if he is elected as the leader of Taiwan, he may come to advance his goal of Taiwan independence, which will provoke a crisis across the Taiwan Strait." China's Taiwan Affairs Office said his comments were "weird" and "deceitful" given that his "Taiwan independence nature" had not changed. China has demanded Taiwan's government accept that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to "one China," something Tsai and Lai have refused to do.

Persons: William Lai, Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Lai, Tsai Ing, Mao Zedong's, Wu Xinbo, Joseph Wu, George Yin, Yin, Tsai's, Lai ., Xi Jinping, Taiwan's, Tsai, Meng Chih, cheng, Ben Blanchard, Sarah Wu, Martin Pollard, Casey, Sonali Paul Organizations: International Airport, REUTERS, Rights, Shanghai's Fudan University, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Affairs Office, Cheng Kung University, Casey Hall, Thomson Locations: United States, New York, Paraguay, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Rights TAIPEI, China, Beijing, Taiwanese, Republic of China, People's Republic of China, The Republic of China, Republic, Republic of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai

☆ 10 Essential Songs by Sinead O’Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jon Pareles | More About Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor did not hold back. From the moment her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” appeared in 1987, O’Connor — whose death was announced on Wednesday — flaunted raw passion and raw nerve. Yet her songs also offered comfort, nurturing and righteousness; she was an idealist, not a provocateur. She produced her own debut album when she was only 20, drawing already on punk, dance music, electronics and seething orchestral arrangements. They were charged with youthful turbulence and unbridled ambition, as O’Connor sang about love, death, power and making her own place in the world.

Persons: Sinead O’Connor, ”, O’Connor —, O’Connor, O’Connor’s

☆ 5 executives at an elite investing conference shared their views on the Fed's master plan for interest rates — and the consensus was that markets are unprepared for the pain in store
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( William Edwards | Akin Oyedele | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But executives at this week's Milken Institute Global Conference warn that may not be the case, and that markets are ill-prepared for rates to stay higher for longer. Here's the Fed's March meeting dot-plot, which shows where members of the Federal Open Market Committee see rates at the end of 2023. While markets are pricing in a pause in June at 5-5.25%, here's where they believe rates will most likely be in December: 4.25-4.5%. Below, we've compiled what five of them said on Monday about their expectations for Fed policy and financial markets. And as our chief economist likes to say, at higher rates, bodies will continue to float to the top over the course of the summer."

☆ JP Morgan asset managers buck the doomsayers of Wall Street, predicting a better 2023 for stocks and bonds
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Anil Varma | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

JP Morgan Asset Management sees a better 2023 for stocks, even as big Wall Street banks warn of sharp falls. "The worst of the market volatility is behind us and both stocks and bonds look increasingly attractive," JP Morgan Asset said. More interest-rate rises look limited, bringing some cheer for markets in 2023, top asset manager Janus Henderson agreed. Here's a selection of commentary and predictions from the two asset managers on 2023 investment prospects. JP Morgan Asset Management"Our base case sees a moderate recession in most major developed economies in 2023.

☆ Community still looking for answers in violent 2011 murder of David Grubbs on Ashland, Oregon bike path
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Sarah Portney | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

It was more of an assisted medical call.”But the chief told Dateline that he thought something more might have been going on. It struck home with a lot of people that the bike path isn't safe,” Chief O’Meara said. I was afraid.”He added that he feels David’s case wasn’t given enough attention in public by police. “David did not have an enemy in this world.”Garrison’s mother, P.J., told Dateline that she remembers meeting David for the first time. He was so just naturally funny and had the gift of gab,” Garrison told Dateline.

Mr. Stein was a substitute teacher, who over the years had also worked at a plumbing supply store and a funeral home. But the place where Mr. Stein, 71, spent most of his time in recent years was at the synagogue, Mr. Halle said. Mr. Stein’s daughter-in-law recently had a child, and Mr. Stein was delighted to be a grandfather for the first time. Ms. Fienberg has two sons, one living in Washington and one in Paris, and six grandchildren. As he aged, Mr. Wax had become hard of hearing, and in recent years, he did not speak much.

Persons: David, Cecil Rosenthal, ”, Joyce Fienberg, Melvin Wax, Rosenthal, Fienberg, Wax, Rose Mallinger, Diane Rosenthal, Sylvan Simon, Wilkinsburg, Daniel Stein, Jerry Rabinowitz, Irving Younger, “ They’ve, Jeffrey Solomon, “, don’t, Solomon, David Rosenthal, “ I’ve, Mr, Richard Gottfried, Susan Kalson, Dr, Gottfried, Ms, Kalson, Steven Halle, Stein, Halle, Stein’s, —, Israel — Mr, Dodie Roskies, Fienberg’s, Stephen E, Roskies, Bill Cartiff, Cartiff, Jodi Kart, Suzan, . Rabinowitz, ” Ms, Hauptman, Rabinowitz, Marie Jo Marks, Marks, Helen Nothwang, Jerry Schmitt, ‘, I’ll, ’, Schmitt Organizations: Cowen Inc, Jewish Community Center, Pittsburgh Jewish, Health, Mr, Halle, “, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research, Development Center, Pirates Locations: Europe, Pa, Edgewood Borough, Mt . Washington, New York, Pittsburgh, “, Ross Township, Israel, Central, Eastern Europe, Squirrel Hill, Washington, Paris

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