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...Over Their Heads TIME's notebook item on the torrential rains and flooding in Bombay [Aug. 8] realistically portrayed the woeful state that India finds itself in as it tries to compete with China. Politicians in India are constantly asserting their resolve to put Bombay on a par with Shanghai, without even giving a thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief...
...FRANCO-CHINESE EXOTICS China is a newcomer to the wine world, and while much of its produce has yet to make par, there are three wonderfully unusual varietals that show promise?French Wild, Rose Honey and Crystal Dry. Old records show that missionaries originally brought these vines to China's Yunnan province from France some 200 years ago (an origin confirmed by DNA testing)?and it's believed that they may be extinct in the home country itself. So far, Chinese winemakers have obtained best results with French Wild (try it with salty hams, like Parma ham or pancetta), which...
...snag? Finca Altamire Malbec 2001 is so good that it's extremely hard to find, even at $80 a bottle. Send your carefully worded pleas to ventas@achaval-ferrer.com. FRANCO-CHINESE EXOTICS China is a newcomer to the wine world, and while much of its produce has yet to make par, there are three wonderfully unusual varietals that show promise - French Wild, Rose Honey and Crystal Dry. Old records show that missionaries originally brought these vines to China's Yunnan province from France some 200 years ago (an origin confirmed by dna testing) - and it's believed that they may be extinct...
...acuerdan de Cris Judd?) y casi esposos (Ben Affleck) han hecho de ella un foco para los m?s diversos chistes. Pero se dice que L?pez es famosa por el humor con el que asume la discusi?n p?blica de sus curvas. (Una vez describi? su propio trasero como "un par de papas en pinchos.") Y es que L?pez habla de su cuerpo como un legado cultural y uno del que est? muy orgullosa...
...whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...