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...which is confusing, since 7-Eleven Inc. is now owned by a Japanese company), has opened 12 stores in California under the excessively excited name Famima!! Its vision of America is pretty complimentary: we're an upscale!!, modern!!, clean!!, cheery!! bunch. Although it has plenty of Asian items, the chain pushes its prepackaged but fresh-pressed panini as well as microwavable pastas. And damn if it didn't improve on the Twinkie: its packaged dessert with a chocolate-covered banana topped with whipped cream and rolled in a vanilla cake is perfect convenience-store food...
Countries that own natural resources want a bigger stake in profits. They won't just settle for a share now. They want to partake as a full partner all the way up the chain into the end use of their commodity. So for companies like Exxon, Conoco-Phillips, Shell, Chevron-Texaco, it's not the same game anymore...
...someone who is the visionary," explains Juliana Engberg, a curatorial advisor for Venice. He also happens to be just about the best-connected Australian in the art scene. Scroll through the membership of New York MoMA's International Council, and there are Kaldor and his partner, the Melbourne fashion-chain head Naomi Milgrom. At London's Tate Modern, the pair are listed just below Sir Elton John and David Furnish. "I didn't realize," says the softly spoken, Hungarian-accented Kaldor, 70, "but it is funny...
...intelligence officers barely merit one short paragraph on page eight. Asgari is different, though. As the IRGC commander in Lebanon in the late '80s and early '90s, he knows dirty secrets, secrets that could be used to justify going to war with Iran. Asgari was in the IRGC's chain of command when it was kidnapping and assassinating Westerners in Lebanon in the '80s. Asgari knows a lot about other IRGC-ordered, Lebanon-based terrorist attacks, including the October 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia...
Harvard’s Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Services warns us to keep track of our drinks on school-sponsored Nalgenes, and concerned parents send weekly chain e-mails, deploring the danger of drugs. Faced with all that anti-addiction publicity, what makes HBO’s new 14-part documentary series “Addiction” any different? For starters, the documentary series, which premiered yesterday, aspires to do more than frighten viewers. It aims to turn addiction from a taboo subject into an acceptable community topic for discussion. At an advance screening held in Boston...