In May, he'll take his meticulous approach across the country, cooking a dinner at the James Beard House in New York as part of the Lucky Rice Festival, which celebrates Asian cuisine.

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About 5, 500 years ago, some Phoenicians cooking dinner in the desert found that heat turned sand into glass.

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She worked 60-hour weeks and commuted three hours a day while parenting two small children, including a two-year-old who once grabbed her BlackBerry while she was cooking dinner and threw it across the room.

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Ericsson speculated earlier this year about how this will play out in everyday life, where objects will have friends, post messages, follow other objects and engage in multi-dimensional dialogue, even cooking your dinner before you arrive home for the night.

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Burstein and Morgen spent seven days a week with the boxers, watching TV, playing videogames, cooking dinner.

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It also includes small touches, such as cross-ventilation and computer carrels in the kitchens to allow parents to help children with homework while they are cooking dinner.

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So now my day would include not only taking my son to the dentist after school, but also taking him shopping, and then cooking dinner for eight.

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Then they will fish for their dinner before heading back to the resort, where the chef will lead cooking class on traditional Maldivian cuisine using the freshly acquired ingredients.

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For example, for sedentary people, just cooking dinner could count as exercise and they need to build up to even walking, the researchers found.

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