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...Gist:Barlow is not a half-assed carnivore. An expatriate Brit who relocated to the Galician town of his Spaniard wife, he launches himself on a foolhardy mission: travel around northwest Spain and eat as much pig as possible. Snout, marrow, heart, bladder, head-all of it. Along the way, he tells the tale of Galicia, a cold, rainy, and stubbornly independent piece of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. It is "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family...
...recent weeks. The increased violence comes at a time of growing uncertainty in Iraq. On the medium-term outlook, American and Iraqi negotiators continue to bicker over the wording of a bilateral security agreement that will authorize the presence of U.S. troops after the U.N. mandate governing their mission expires at the end of this year. If an agreement is not reached, or a new U.N. mandate not issued, U.S. troops may be confined to their bases as of January, raising the specter of a possible security vacuum. (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...
...action would really make a difference? Western military intervention would indeed have made a crucial difference in Rwanda back in 1994. But it may not be the most important response this time even as the European Union is discussing sending more troops to shore up the United Nations peacekeeping mission there...
...civilians. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has called for the European Union to send reinforcements. This might serve as good out-of-theater training exercise for the European troops but an extra 2,000 boots on the ground - even if the 27-member body could agree on the mission - would do little to address the root causes of the conflict. It would be a showpiece response and not a step toward a permanent solution. (See pictures of Congo on the break...
Follow-up research will include the launch of Project Kepler, a first-of-its-kind NASA spacecraft mission that will look for Earth-sized planets located at similar distances from their respective stars—planets that might be friendly to life...