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...year-old Nigerian and have often viewed celebrities' "concern" for Africa with annoyance. My reaction to Bono was different; I was impressed. He is right in advocating not just debt relief but also the lowering of trade restrictions on African countries. What Africa needs is not gifts of fish but fair access to the fishing pond. AMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Mansfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 2002 | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Guangzhou is still a river town, even if the Pearl sweats oil and tar, so I begin with fish for dinner. In the Dashatou area, on Xigong Seafood Street along the river, where restaurants zealously compete for customers, I choose Red City Seafood Restaurant (look for the ship's hull protruding from the second floor). Lording over the outdoor live tanks like an executioner, I pick the creatures doomed to become my meal. Vegetarians don't get this kind of thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South China's Happening Heart | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...that is dedicated to developing new musicals and talent, won a National Medal of Arts in 1999. DIED. MAUDE FARRIS-LUSE, 115, the world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of World Records; in Coldwater, Michigan. Luse reportedly credited an intake of boiled dandelion greens and fried fish as the reason for her long life. DIED. RUDOLF HELL, 100, inventor of the first machine that electronically dissolved text into a stream of dots to be reassembled at the receiving end, on which fax machines and scanners are based; in Berlin. Last year the city of Kiel commemorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...crossword-puzzle clue - "shining silver trash" - for which the answer is "aglitter" (silver = AG; trash = litter); the movie gleams like a diamond trying to pass itself off as a rhinestone. A truck dumps a pack of newspapers in front of a newsstand, and they flop, like a bunch of fish the papers will soon be wrapping, just as Bernstein's horns scream to a finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sidneyland | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

Regulars also said the new owner’s decision to include items like fish and chips on the menu was a welcome step...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With New Owner, Life at Tommy's Goes On | 3/20/2002 | See Source »

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