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...entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their carts overflowing with cut-price milk, sugar, coffee, socks and other generic, non-branded items. One man clutches a box with a €79.99 computer printer. Ine Lendemeyer, a social worker, has a bag full of frozen chicken and Top Star cola, €1.49 for six. "Aldi used to be for people who didn't have much money, but now everyone goes - bank managers, lawyers, everyone," she says. The worse the economy, the better the business at Aldi. Last year it racked up €27 billion in sales...
RIVERS AND TIDES. A documentary about erosion may sound as appetizing as a plate piled high with General Wong’s Chicken, but filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer has apparently met the challenge and created an erosion movie worth seeing. Rivers and Tides tracks artist Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor of what he dubs “earthworks,” organic creations positioned in a fashion and location that leaves them vulnerable to the elements. Works of stone, ice and wood are placed on land or in the sea in such a way that they are beaten into uselessness...
...countryside. Brahm's approach is far tonier. His Red Capital Club boasts Zhongnanhai cuisine?the preferred dishes of the Party ?lite who lived in Beijing's government enclave. Mao's favorite meal, red roast pork with bitter melon, is on the menu, as is Deng's family recipe for chicken. (That dish comes garnished with black- and white-cat sculptures?carved out of beets and turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom: It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.) The culinary allusions continue with the dessert offerings: yuan...
...evening of the game, the Sharks break out of their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...
...like Wal-Mart subsidiary ASDA have started to team up with refineries to turn used cooking oil into legitimate biodiesel fuel, which creates 79% less carbon dioxide than regular diesel. This year ASDA will test its refined waste oil in delivery trucks pluckily labeled THIS VEHICLE IS POWERED BY CHICKEN...