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...economic stagnation are easy to spot. Unfinished office and apartment blocks loom over the skyline like Olympian tombstones. With most international companies long departed, billboards advertise mostly local products, such as Spirulina ("Beer That Makes You Young Forever"), or nothing at all. Like in a city at war, fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the grounds of public buildings. Part of the front lawn of the seldom-visited Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they did during my first visit...
...which he played a terminally ill cancer patient who dies photographing an erupting volcano. "I really loved that movie," he says, "but the box office... ugh." Still, his track record improved considerably when he backed the critically acclaimed 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which was directed by Fruit Chan...
...thirsty, head for the wine district east of Cape Town and sample vintages made from the national grape pinotage - a cross between Pinot Noir and Hermitage - or a delicious tipple from one of the newer plantings of sauvignon blanc or shiraz. Or try a shot of the fiery fruit liqueur mampoer, also called witblitz. End your meal with a cup of rooibos tea, a popular herbal brew with no caffeine, low tannin and, reputedly, medicinal properties especially helpful for soothing babies...
...behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike to pay his landlord, not his dealer). But from my point of view, it felt like a bully had just pushed me into the dirt, stamped on my favorite sweater and taken my fruit rollup...
...ites did not choose to launch a spasm of counterviolence but instead signed the draft interim Iraqi constitution. In other words, the strategy of Terror International does not seem to be achieving its desired effect where it matters most--in Iraq. Nor should its strategy be allowed to bear fruit in the rest of the democratic world. The terrorists don't want to liberate Iraq; they want to enslave it in the name of a demented dream. Their vision was articulated in a postattack video, purportedly created by al-Qaeda, in which the group's "military spokesman for Europe" told...