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...eyes can only cope with daylight driving; Aadil, 27, takes over in the evenings. Between them, the men make 37,000 Iraqi dinars ($15) a month. That's not nearly enough to feed the family - even though, like all Iraqis, they get free rations of basic commodities such as flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar from the government. "All the money goes to buy medicines, or vegetables and meat," Nadam says, "we try to limit ourselves to spending 1,500 dinars (60 cents) a day, but the money quickly runs...
...season staple, the chestnut. At Monaco's Le Louis XV restaurant, chef Franck Cerutti has been dazzling patrons with fresh takes on such down-home dishes as vegetable stew with chestnuts and fennel, and a light blini, the hearty Russian cousin to the crepe, made with freshly ground chestnut flour...
...True, the majority of Iraqis are living in miserable conditions, citizens of an oil-rich nation who have become dependent on government rations of flour, rice, sugar and tea. But thanks to oil-smuggling as well as the gradual easing of United Nations sanctions, Baghdad's markets have not been as well stocked in years. There is a plentiful supply of dates, almonds and desserts, a Ramadan tradition throughout the Arab world...
...that the accountants can only guess that they are worth anywhere from $1 billion to $10 billion. Besides making sense of the books, the Standard & Poor's team is testing them for evidence to support allegations by Palestinian merchants that the Authority controls de facto monopolies in the local flour, cement and tobacco trades. The accountants are looking closely at how the Authority awards contracts and trying to determine whether corruption in licensing, which they say has been rife, continues...
...very sour, though,” he said. “The people here in Cambridge don’t like it too strong.” A truck pulled to the door, and a parade of men tramped in and out for an hour, sacks of flour on their backs...