Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester will give up his bonus in 2012, after technical glitches in the last week left thousands of customers unable to access their accounts. It's not the first time Mr. Hester has forgone pay: He turned down a $1.5 million stock award for 2011, and a larger amount still in 2009.
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The Escoffier School for Culinary Arts has one hell of a namesake to live up to. Auguste Escoffier is the closest thing the cooking world has to a deity. He established the brigade system that governs all modern-day professional kitchens. His pivotal Le Guide Culinaire codified French cuisine’s five mother sauces, from which all other sauces derive. The Escoffier School’s owners believe they can now impart some of the grand master's wisdom to a new generation of cooks through an intensive online course.
Remember how in junior high you used to try to convince yourself that beautiful people were congenitally dull? With tomatoes, it's actually true! Everyone knows that handsome rosy tomatoes from the supermarket taste blander than the ugly heirloom variety from the farmer's market (or your backyard). As it turns out, it's genetic -- the gene that makes tomatoes ripen uniformly, and thus makes them look appealing when sitting in grocery produce sections, also…
To remember how to put the components of an engine back together, the creator snapped 3000 pictures of the process.
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