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Does all this sound familiar? The hyping of a previously unknown green that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind of like lettuce, became so gentrified over the course of the past 20 years or so that Kamp used it in the title of his 2006 primer on how we became a gourmet nation: The United States of Arugula...
...only 8:45 a.m., but the storefront is already busy. Men and women in jeans, baseball hats and leather jackets keep the tinted door swinging open and closed. But this is not a retail outlet. It's a pain-management clinic. The people have come for pills...
...legislating good intentions is one thing. Real solutions are harder to come by. Although the state has approved a database to track pill dispensing, there is no dedicated funding source - the legislation merely gave officials the ability to seek grants for it. The Broward County grand-jury report concluded that the monitoring program should be "swiftly implemented and adequately funded, by any means necessary." But that's a tall order in a state hard hit by the recession. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...pool every day at 3:30 p.m. Cable describes the spectacle as a "large-scale wet-T-shirt contest." For $5, tourists can rent plastic basins for splashing each other and scantily-clad Dai women. "Authenticity is much less important than entertainment in China," says Cable. "Tourists don't come to see authentic rituals. They come to see outrageous ones." The park, which is run by a management company owned by Han Chinese, the country's ethnic majority, still anticipates over 1,000 visitors to the water-splashing pavilion over the three days of festivities ending Thursday. But even these...
...ousted President was prepared to change his mind came at a news conference in his home village of Teyit Tuesday where he said he'll resign if the interim government guarantees his and his family's safety. He also proposed that Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, come to his southern home base for talks and guaranteed safety for her and other officials. But Otunbayeva's chief of staff, Edil Baisalov, rejected that idea, saying "we are not holding talks with bloody dictators." It wasn't immediately clear if that refusal also constituted a rejection of Bakiyev...