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...feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine is our values and our gift to the world. It's pureness, freshness, enjoyment and happiness...
...break up a terrorist cell bent on amassing and purifying a huge cache of highly explosive hydrogen peroxide, the German authorities looked not only far and wide, but right in their back yards. Over the course of many months, hundreds of security agents worked together to uncover the plot, overcoming hurdles of logistics and imagination that tripped up American authorities in the months before September 11th...
...story, a coming-of-age drama about two young women caught up in Moscow's high life, but the crew's idleness was now stretching into hours. The shoot required a police escort that had been approved well in advance. But the Moscow city police on hand seemed bent upon giving the moviemakers yet another real-world lesson on the inexplicable, infuriating and often interminable delays endemic to Russia. The making of You and I, the third film produced in Moscow for a Western audience, has been awash with such cultural exchanges, Russian obliqueness grating against the time-is-money...
...targets - in a real way." Indeed, Jett says, "It would not only upset the United States but all the neighboring countries in Central America." Already, Iran's presence in Nicaragua has upset neighboring Honduras, where two newspapers recently reported the arrival of Iranian diplomats who entered Honduras from Nicaragua bent on photographing hotels, businesses, embassies and tourist sites...
...retreat, though, in places like Minturn, tucked under sharp cliffs at an ear-popping altitude of 7,800 ft. Developers, second-home builders and fast-money types view the old ranching-and-mining community of 1,200 as the next Vail or Jackson Hole with a more down-home bent. Main Street is torn between past and future: tin-roofed bungalows abut spanking new commercial buildings, and Volvos and BMWs with out-of-state plates honk at stray dogs...