The challenge of working in the restaurant and bar industry as a recovering alcoholic. Good article. (New York Times)Zimbabwe faces severe hunger issues despite increased crop yields. (AFP)Superstar Chicago chef Grant Achatz sells his memoirs. (New York Times)
The Dive Bomber: Now on Thursdays!When we took our bar stools at Claudia's Pub, my friend Holly noticed a sticker on the shelf above the toaster oven: an Alcoholics Anonymous "One day at a time" sticker. I wonder if the sticker's a vestige from the pre-Claudia owner.That would make for an interesting story. A bar sold by a recovering alcoholic who plasters the place with AA slogans before taking leave.Not that Claudia's needs help in the story department. Connie, our bartender, told us that th
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dno1967/ / CC BY 2.0Imagine that a doctor inserts a thin tube into your intestines to poke around (a.k.a., a colonoscopy), then proceeds to...fall asleep. This actually happened at Des Peres Hospital in 2003, and not because the physician was bored. Dr. Michael Impey was addicted to painkillers at the time. A few years later -- evidently still addicted -- he put a hole in a patient's colon during a procedure, requiring other surgeons to have to remove part of it (the
