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...Native American, I want to hate this country and its contradictions. I want to believe that Sacagawea hated this country and its contradictions. But this country exists, in whole and in part, because Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark. In the land that came to be called Idaho, she acted as diplomat between her long-lost brother and the Lewis and Clark party. Why wouldn't she ask her brother and her tribe to take revenge against the men who had enslaved her? Sacagawea is a contradiction. Here in Seattle, I exist, in whole and in part, because a half-white...
...flavors and textures. Take his agneau dans tous ses états - roughly, lamb every which way - which includes grilled lamb kebab, roast saddle of lamb, poached lamb's knuckle and grilled lamb's neck confit. Says Savoy: "It's a way of demonstrating the wealth of tastes that exist within one product." Klein agrees with the "less is more" philosophy. "You have to keep the product intact," he says. Try his tasting menu, a rambling affair with more than a dozen dishes, and you'll experience myriad flavors. But each part of the meal will only have a few, something...
...commercial. But the worst face of great fortunes, corporations and finance comes near the end of a megaboom. By this point, a decade or two of wealth momentum, rising political influence and a business-flattering culture combine to create a widespread sense of anything goes. Corners exist to be cut, ethics to be ignored, politicians to be bought, definitions to be stretched, profits to be maximized and employees and communities to be ignored. In short, the last several years...
...does a would-be mom decide what to do? If she is a young woman facing imminent infertility from cancer treatments or other medical problems, then you could argue that even unknown odds are better than none. Otherwise, it's important to understand that many other options exist--from embryo freezing to sperm donation--with much better track records...
...NEPAD work? It had better. In sub-Saharan Africa 40% of people exist on less than $1 a day, and average per capita income is lower now than in the 1960s. One African in five lives in a country severely disputed by war. This decline reflects both political and institutional failure. Reform, Museveni argues, "must clearly aim at repositioning Africa from backward, agriculturally focused to industrial societies...