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...Health regulations allow for a certain amount of insect material in the food we eat. This suggests that most of us consume various bugs unwittingly throughout our lives. Even vegetarians must accept that they've probably eaten bits of insects in their salads. The sheer mass of insects on our planet makes them an ideal source of food. Certain insects are specified as kosher in the Bible. The term ant farm could one day take on a whole new meaning. Barbara Harwood, Auckland...
...China Airplane Diplomacy In their first formal discussions since 1999, China and Taiwan agreed to allow charter flights across the Taiwan strait, starting July 4. While travelers will still have to pass through Hong Kong, the pact is a sign of how relations have thawed in the month since Taiwan's new President, Ma Ying-jeou, took office...
...when his handlers take away the teleprompter and allow him to interact with the crowd, McCain becomes a candidate transformed. He begins to have fun, spinning stories like an old sailor on a bar stool and speaking with clarity about the issues that move him most, which now include three thematic touchstones of the campaign: reform, prosperity and peace. Though many of his words are memorized, repeated verbatim at each stop, they still manage to come across as conversational. McCain usually speaks for about 30 minutes and then opens the room up to questions. In a typical session, McCain takes...
...correspondents understand that putting themselves in the story is sometimes effective and sometimes necessary, but they should never be the story. Mealer was just 28 when he first went to Congo, and this is his first book, but not once in All Things Must Fight to Live does he allow his presence to block out the country or its people. Rather than letting the war play out on his inner stage, he becomes a bit player in a colossal drama. "There were many ways of going in, and everyone had his own reasons," writes Mealer. "But ? there was always...
...Japanese citizens oppose changing the constitution to allow the nation to establish a military. Such a change would overturn the government's policy of not having a traditional military, an edict that was established following the end of World...