As a financial consultant, Umber Ahmad typically spent her days counseling people on how to expand their brands—until one particular client, Tom Colicchio, heard about her baking hobby and asked for a taste. She was nervous, to say the least. “He makes people cry on TV cooking for him,” she says. “And he wanted to try my food.” Over three days, Ahmad brought him cheesecake with a chocolate-cookie crust, dark chocolate brownies, tarts, shortbreads, and biscuits right out of the oven. Read More...
August 7, 2017 8:41 AM EDT
Good morning. These are today’s top stories:
North Korea vows revenge against sanctionsNorth Korea pledged to retaliate against the U.S. “thousands-fold” over new sanctions that ban Pyongyang from exporting over $1 billion worth of goods, including coal and iron, according to the Associated Press. North Korea blamed the strict penalties on a “heinous U.S. plot to isolate and stifle” leader Kim Jong Un’s government. Read More...
Richard Zoglin
June 28, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
One scene ends with the chilling cry, “We’re going in! We’re going in!” In another, the scariest lines come from an automated voice that suddenly interrupts the human crew in the cockpit: “Too low–terrain! Too low–terrain!” In the tense final sequence, two pilots aided by an off-duty colleague from the passenger section desperately try to land a DC-10 after an explosion robs the plane of its ability to make anything but right turns. Read More...