Word: dog
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...Come on, dog meat is so delicious." KEP CHUKTEMA, governor of Phnom Penh, defending his approach to dealing with the city's stray-dog problem. Chuktema also said that dog meat goes nicely with palm-juice wine
...expedition leader, he is perhaps more lovable than inspirational, usually to be found below deck, sweating over a laptop and dog-eared papers, rather than breasting the wind on deck as his ship slices through the shimmering swells. Yet when he talks about the project, his resolve glints through his mild demeanor. "We're following the ancient Cinnamon Route," he says proudly, seated atop a coil of rope in the ship's bow as it skims across the Java Sea. "Indonesian ships sailed it thousands of years ago, bringing the spices of the islands to Africa and returning with iron...
...flew about 30,000 passengers on the route per year, while Ryanair has transported 110,000 so far in 2003. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary tells TIME the incentives are not illegal subsidies and "we're absolutely certain we'll win on appeal." But the issue will continue to dog Ryanair and its rivals until a definitive ruling by the E.U. Commission. There's no indication...
Rarely has a book been preceded by as much fevered speculation and murderous ill will as Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape; 288 pages). It's out this week in the U.K. and already getting more ink than David Beckham on a slow news day. That's because Amis, 54, is one of Britain's best-known serious novelists - and thus one of the biggest targets in the literary field - and Yellow Dog is his first big novel since The Information, eight years ago. Beginning with The Rachel Papers in 1974, Amis' cold eye, slashing wit and verbal ferocity made...
...Schwarzenegger's steroid use, which he has admitted in several interviews but claims to have ended at an unspecified time in the distant past. Just when that was and whether it was related to the heart-valve-replacement surgery he underwent in 1997 are questions that are sure to dog him during the campaign. So is the rumor that he is on dialysis, a consequence of steroid abuse. "Absolutely not!" says Columbu. "The first time I heard the dialysis rumor was when we were skiing in Sun Valley. I got a call from someone telling me that Arnold...