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...each day, Japanese soldiers jog with Canadians through the apple orchard outside the base, in the shadow of the balloon-shaped radar antennae of the Israeli listening station on Mount Avital. They play baseball with the Canadians and soccer with the Poles. Canadian soldiers eschew the beef lasagne of their own cooks and chow down in the noisy mess hall on tempura and miso soup prepared by Furusho's three cooks...
...Annals of Gastronomy MEAT WATCH. As omnivores, we need our pounds of flesh. Yet not since the Beef Jerky Scare of aught-five has the global carving board been more barren. Mad cow, foot-and-mouth and a host of unpalatable soy substitutes have left Type A red-meat lovers forlorn in the produce aisle, desperately trying to assemble a meal from legumes and kasha. Now, resourceful amateur butchers around the globe are proffering alternatives to the traditional Sunday roast. In Bucharest last week, public authorities plastered the city with posters telling consumers how to spot the difference between...
...personal trainer--and she makes him look fine. "A 36-year-old made a pass at me the other day," he says. Two years ago at the Sun City retirement community near Austin, Texas, hunky senior residents agreed to pose for a community-events calendar dubbed--what else--Aged Beef. The calendar's creators have now launched a website to sell it to non-Texans...
...Never, ever, order plum juice bubble tea in Chinatown. On the way down it tastes like rotten prunes, on the way up it tastes like beef jerky...
...weeks ago, despite their intimate NAFTA partnership, Canada and the U.S. moved to the verge of a multibillion-dollar trade war over softwood lumber; it came not long after a bruising spat between Canada and Brazil that involved subsidies to airline sales and, briefly, a shutdown in the beef trade. Brazil was in a row with the U.S. over the pricing of generic aids drugs that added another thorn to a perennially prickly relationship...