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...most significant source of comfort has been his year-long girlfriend...
...DIED. YAYORI MATSUI, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist who campaigned for Japan to admit its employment of "comfort women" before and during World War II; in Tokyo. Already suffering from cancer during a trip to visit feminists in Afghanistan last October, Matsui said: "I wanted to live at least 10 more years...
...girls' schools in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could use one myself," he jokes, after a laborious landing in an armchair in his book-crammed living room. Ustinov seems to take comfort in the homey clutter of the room, with its well-read volumes and countless trophies of a long and varied career. He's less sanguine about the current state of global housekeeping. "It's a messy world today," he says. "It's like being thrown back in an age when...
...Native Americans revered the peaceful custom of tobacco smoking and shared it with the first European colonists. For almost 400 years patrons of Boston’s taverns have derived comfort and pleasure from the habit...
...Enter Archie B's. Tucked in the city's trendy Soho district, the restaurant, tel: (852) 2522 1262, has become a one-stop shop for familiar comfort foods that used to only exist Stateside. Think pastrami sandwiches and chunky potato salads. Rice Krispie treats and black-and-white cookies (good luck finding those anywhere else in Hong Kong outside of Seinfeld reruns). There's cheesesteaks for transplanted Philadelphians, and subs stuffed with roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "People would like to assume Americans go into McDonald's and go, 'Ah, home!' But it's not like that," Levin says...