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Witness the triumverate of successful restaurants that have sprung from the fabulously popular Inman eatery, Dali: Tapeo, Cuchi-Cuchi, and Solea borrow the well-tested formula of reliably good tapas, lethal sangria, and a sequins-and-boas atmosphere. However, in the time it takes to get to the top of the wait list at Dali, you can easily be halfway through your Spanish feast at Tapeo...
...only one China?but agreed that each side could have a different interpretation of what that entails. That was a high point in cross-strait relations. When Chen's Democratic Progressive Party took over power in 2000, that consensus had already crumbled, and Chen refuses to adopt the formula. As a consequence, Beijing won't deal with...
...desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands (imagine changing a dozen diapers a day). She cooked up an exfoliating, moisturizing formula in her kitchen, then juggled eight credit cards and even resorted to bartering to get her One Minute Manicure business off the ground. Back in 1999, a neighbor who owned a computer would place orders and print invoices for Herman and get home-cooked meals in return. Since then, Herman...
Finally, the Kyoto formula of asking countries to reduce their emissions by a percentage of current emissions will simply not work for developing countries. (It is not reasonable to ask someone who is emitting at nearly zero to reduce his emission to absolutely zero!). If the atmosphere is a global common, we will have to shift towards some form of per capita allocation of emission rights. Why should someone living in Boston be granted the right to consume more of the global atmosphere than someone living in Bahawalpur? Others have already suggested a system where each individual is allotted...
...Vinda” are all rooted in an acoustic, folksy mindset, with a heavy dose of Flamenco percussion and Spanish guitar thrown in the mix, topped off with touches of electronic bloops and bleeps, and washed over with waves of noise at appropriate times. This sounds like a promising formula, and for the most part, it is; “Bem-Vinda” is very effervescent, very fragile, constantly threatening to float off into the ether and not come back...