Booth Gardner, governor of Washington from 1985-1993, is the cover boy of New York Times Magazine this week. You may already know that he's suffering from Parkinson's disease, you may already know that he's campaigning to legalize physician-assisted suicide. But there's more, Daniel Bergner tells us:Only his current cause keeps [Gardner] much interested in living — this and one other goal: to connect with his son, Doug, whose growing up Gardner missed as he took......

If you love Fran's salted caramels, well, you're in good company -- the salted kind make up 75% of Fran's caramel business. How good are they? So good that when the New York Times Magazine did an article on caramel + salt, Fran's is the first non-NYC purveyor they mention: Leave it to the Americans to take such destruction one step further, by pairing it with chocolate. In 2001, Fran Bigelow, a chocolate maker in......

Like seemingly most people in Seattle, Seattlest is a transplant. From Virginia specifically. This morning we had this article from the New York Times Magazine sent to us [requires registration]. It discusses the difficulty in reaching a consensus on a design for a future expansion of one of the most revered areas on the Grounds of the University of Virginia (Seattlest's alma mater). For those unfamiliar, the University of Virginia was originally designed by......