Word: islanders
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...highest-ranking Chinese envoy to visit Taiwan in 60 years landed in Taipei this week, ringing in a new era of cross-strait relations with unprecedented trade and transport agreements. It is the first time that a top Chinese official has come to Taiwan, the island off mainland China that claims autonomy, and China claims as its own. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, who met with the high-ranking Beijing diplomat, has advocated closer economic ties with China and a more pragmatic approach to its sovereignty dispute...
...thousand pounds of local squash, and traveling to Tokyo to talk about college cafeterias. Dying to get a taste of Mayer’s next moves? Read on, ’cause your order’s up. 1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): If you were stranded on a desert island for one month, and could only eat one HUDS dish, which would it be? Ted A. Mayer (TAM): If I was stranded and could only eat one dish, which would it be? Well, I would pick something that had vegetables in it, and somehow provided a complete protein...
...were stranded on an island and could choose a replenishable supply of one HUDS item, what would it be? a) Chicken parm—a delectable blend of protein, dairy, and sauce: 25% b) Carnival cookie—bringing the partay to the island since 1636: 29% c) None—I’d take the quick and relatively less painful death...
This New England veggie has been popping up almost daily in d-halls with completely random names like Long Island Cheese Squash or Blue Hubbard with Sage and Cider, bringing a much-needed touch of restaurant snobbery to the food line...
...livelihood depends on winning hearts. The more remarkable thing, we both felt, was that this sparkling stranger was so much like the kind of people we meet in Paris, in Hong Kong, in the Middle East: difficult to place and connected to everywhere. Like the air of his home island (not really Eastern or Western, but a vibrant mingling of the two), he spoke for the dawning global melting pot of today. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...