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...same day? More than 40 of London's world-class restaurants cook up miniature versions of their signature dishes and serve them from their stalls; strollers can browse the best of British artisan food producers and enjoy the chefs' theater, where some of the U.K.'s most famous cooks explain their craft. www.tasteoflondon.co.uk...
Live performance is part of the appeal. "There is this mystical thing that happens between the audience and the performer that is impossible to get from a DVD. It is an ancient thing that is very difficult to explain but you know it when you are there. As a performer I find that incredibly intoxicating," says Tate...
...financial and economic state as "bankrupt", and indicated serious belt-tightening would be required to address the situation. Fillon soon regretted the public concern the term provoked: as Sarkozy returned from New York with assurances that "there are no austerity plans" for France, Fillon found himself obliged to explain his use of "bankrupt" as glib and non-literal. A French public groggy with weeks of bad economic news seemed to doubt Fillon's stand-down, Sarkozy's promises, and either man's ability to turn things around quickly. Both suffered almost immediate dips of support in polls...
...Poland, where relations with Germany have rarely been cordial and where ties have deteriorated in recent years, the news was seized on by leading right-wing politicians to condemn him. Grass last year wrote Walesa and the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamwicz, to explain why he had taken so long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective...
...Even more alarmingly, only approximately 34 percent of Harvard men and 63 percent of Harvard women graduate having ever been tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Of course, one could easily argue that many people abstain from sex, and that would explain at least some of the numbers above. But given that 64 percent of respondents claimed that they were sexually experienced, the number of people who get tested for STDs is shockingly low. And if you do go to the doctor and get tested it is important to remember that a pap test is separate from a STD test...