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...reading habits, the answers to these questions range from "It's the death of democracy!" to "Newspapers? What newspapers?" But with the demise of two major metropolitan dailies, the 149-year-old Rocky Mountain News and the almost equally venerable 145-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the last month alone, the issue is becoming a matter of practical rather than just theoretical concern. (See the 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America...
...played hard the last month of her career, which is hard because she doesn’t get a lot of game time,” Delaney-Smith said. “I respect that...
...could prove daunting - more than double the budget of the Afghan government, and way more than could be sustained by Afghanistan's own economy for the foreseeable future. Even U.S. trainers for these new forces are in short supply: the Government Accountability Office, in a report issued earlier this month, said the Pentagon is 1,500 personnel short of the number it needs to train Afghan national police...
...China is not pleased. That, at least, is the assertion of a new book written by a group of Chinese authors who list their grievances with how China is being treated in the world today. Unhappy China, released this month, is a follow-up to the 1996 work China Can Say No, a nationalist bestseller that complained about the influence of the West and the U.S. in particular on China. Thirteen years later, the authors of Unhappy China point to the protests along the route of the Olympic flame, complaints about pollution from China by Western nations that consume...
...Despite the restaurant's now infamous association with stomach cramps and vomiting, Blumenthal stands by its standards of cleanliness and its methods of preparation. "For the last five years we've been sending food off every month for sampling, and I don't know any other restaurant in the country that does that," he told Hospitality. Apparently his customers believe him: a week after reopening, The Fat Duck is once again fully booked...