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1,001,304 SHUs New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute last week certified the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," from India as the hottest ever tested. By comparison, most pepper sprays come in at 2 to 5 million SHUs.
The Vespa Girls used to be an institution at the University of Indonesia (UI). Back in the 1970s, these daughters of ?lite families would take breaks from their studies at Indonesia's best university by cruising on Italian two-wheelers, their miniskirts grazing their upper thighs. Sometimes, certain Vespa Girls...
Indonesia matters. The battle for its soul is taking place within a wider war in the Islamic world pitting progressive Muslims, who believe their faith can coexist with modernity and liberal Western influences, against fundamentalists, who want the religion to return to its more austere Arab roots. What happens in...
Supporters of Shari'a argue that the central government's attitude simply reflects public sentiment. A 2006 poll by the Indonesia Survey Institute found that 58% of Indonesians believed adulterers should be stoned, as is mandated by Islamic law, up from 39% five years before. "There's a new feeling...
His remarks reportedly infuriated U.S. officials, but though Prime Minister Abe quickly reprimanded him, most Japanese agree with Kyuma - a poll this week found that 57% of Japanese opposed America's actions in Iraq. "Japan backed the U.S. on Iraq and what does it get from the U.S. in the...