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...serious work. The cover image of Lee posing in a flowing red evening gown isn't calculated to enhance the book's credibility, and there appears to have been no budget for original food photography - so the reader is served up stock-house images of congealing soups and stone-cold stir-fries (or so they appear), devoid of context. Then there are the baffling omissions: Asian Palate has nothing to say about Indonesian, Filipino or even Vietnamese cuisine, which with its French connections and global popularity would surely have been a natural inclusion...
...hands of her niece. The girl slips on the mitts, looks at her hand and wiggles her fingers. "They're too tight," she says. Game over. Burnet says she'll keep searching, but for now, in her quest for this hot item, she's out in the cold...
...military is now spending more on defense, on average, than it did during the Cold War - even after the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are erased. (See pictures of Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
...taxpayers will be spending one-third more to maintain the U.S. military than their parents and grandparents paid for the nation's Cold War force...
...look for any major changes that might restore Pentagon spending to its more modest Cold War levels. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took a good whack at unneeded weapons systems in last year's budget, killing the F-22 fighter and other programs of dubious merit. Unfortunately, his minions seem to believe that this one-time slice is sufficient. Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, said Feb. 17 that he believes last year's cuts mean that additional program cancellations "won't be necessary...