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Despite the culinary path followed by their teacher, volunteers and members of the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center (GBBCC) have struck a balance between decadence and the bare essentials. By serving Chinese food that is both modest and savory, the Tea House, a fundraising venture for the GBBCC, allows diners to enjoy simplicity and authenticity without sacrificing taste...
...dangers of terrorism, it has done far less to prepare the country for actually defending against it. While the White House's suggestion that Americans defend themselves against chemical or biological attacks with duct tape and plastic sheeting was dismissed by many for its naivete, it laid bare a sobering truth: the U.S. still doesn't have a credible and comprehensive system in place to cope with such attacks. "We're not building the means to respond well," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "And when we have that next terrorist incident, there...
...resolution and goes to war anyway, the U.N.'s relevance to great international issues will be severely undermined. Already, the Iraq crisis has split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union into supporters and opponents of the U.S. position. And this is just the dry, bare-bones recitation of diplomatic facts. It does not begin to engage the private level of anger between officials on the two sides of the dispute, much less the vituperative public insults traded daily in the press on both sides of the Atlantic...
...parched and brown as Mutare is cool, well-watered and green. Tuku, as he's known to friends and fans, settles down on a dusty wooden bench with his guitar. All day, he has been clapping his big hands, flapping his long arms, and high-stepping around the bare concrete floor of a thatched rondavel-turned-makeshift studio - anything to fire up the choir of aids orphans with whom he is recording a charity album. Unused to the rigor and repetition of a recording session, especially in this infernal heat, the children are wilting. It's time for a break...
...Jampur has lost 20 cows, 10 horses and some goats and sheep. Yet he considers himself fortunate. "Some of my neighbors lost their whole herd and had to leave the steppe," he says, stuffing his water pipe with tobacco while his wife feeds dung into the stove with her bare hand. Jampur can't conceive of following them to the city. He knows there was a drought this summer and heavy snowfall early in the winter?the hallmarks of another dzud?and his animals, he admits, already look thin. "But we've made it this far," he says...