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Fugakyu is, like most upscale Japanese restaurants, an expensive night out. It is easy to scarf down myriad plates of sushi and only feel nauseous when the bill arrives. However, the difference between Fugakyu and its rivals is that its food validates the lofty prices. You are paying for quality, and will be far from shortchanged. In fact, Fugakyu is the perfect spot both for a romantic date or a boisterous trip with friends. Be warned, though, they do not take reservations for parties under 10 and arrival at a peak time—especially between...
...Security concerns, too, continue to dog foreign operators, who are targets for myriad Indonesian groups with grievances and agendas. Last year, ExxonMobil closed its gas field in Aceh for four months due to safety concerns as violence escalated in the region, where separatist rebels are fighting a guerrilla war against the government. Now 3,000 government troops guard the site, but turmoil continues. Earlier this year, a bicyclist carried a pipe bomb to within a few hundred meters of the front gate of the gas field operation when the bomb detonated prematurely, killing him. "Indonesia is becoming the Nigeria...
...their part, advocates of comprehensive sex ed worry about sins of omission. Worth the Wait is silent on masturbation and homosexuality and, in keeping with federal guidelines, mentions condoms only to point out their myriad imperfections. "Manipulating facts about condoms is using a scare tactic to try and get kids not to be sexually active," says Tamara Kreinin, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. "And the fact that physicians are now doing this gives it an added level of credibility." Dr. David Kaplan, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine...
While you could easily spend a week shopping in New Orleans' myriad stores, a good rule of thumb if your time is limited is to give yourself a day or two just to browse and ask merchants questions plus another day to make purchases, says Macon Riddle, president of Let's Go Antiquing, a New Orleans antiques consulting and shopping service. For $100 an hour, with a three-hour minimum, Riddle will accompany you on shopping jaunts, pinpointing the stores that offer what you're looking for. Notes Peter Moss: "Many people just accidentally bump into our antiques stores while...
...nuclear capability, today we are at least expected to believe that they may. Certainly, Israel now has nuclear weapons. And let us not delude ourselves into thinking that if Israel is attacked, particularly by weapons of mass destruction, that it will retaliate conventionally; the government has made clear in myriad ways that it is not afraid of international rage—weapons of mass destruction would be met by weapons of mass destruction...