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Under the Taliban, officials from the Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue struck fear into women's hearts, beating those who let a glimpse of wrist or ankle peek out from beneath their burqas. The hated religious police were disbanded when the hard-line Islamic regime fell in 2001. But President Hamid Karzai is planning to resurrect them, much to the alarm of human rights groups, parliamentarians and Western diplomats...
...Stopping for lunch at an upscale Crepe-Away diner, I'm taken aback by the sheer normality of the scene. Young people hanging out and flirting? Check. Bad American pop music on the loudspeakers? Yeah, got that. Families playing peek-a-boo with their kids over menus? That, too. It was a typical Lebanese scene and one that would be instantly recognizable in, say, northern California. It was easy to forget that just a few miles down the mountain roads, people could suffer an Israeli air strike at any minute - in fact, if there had been any bombings, we would...
...York City last week, the 160,000 food products on offer ranged from the ridiculous (Fear Factor Crunchy Larva--real bugs coated in barbecue, cheddar and spicy Mexican flavors) to the sublime (D'Artagnan's Petite Mousse Truffée, a black-truffle-studded, port-infused mousse). Here's a peek at what could be showing up on your grocery shelves...
Angelina Jolie will celebrate World Refugee Day on CNN this week with her first U.S. TV interview since the birth of her baby with Brad Pitt. To peek at the hot mama, viewers must learn about Sierra Leone...
...screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and star Tom Hanks, all Oscar winners. Any movie with that celebrated a roster usually demands early exposure to the upper-middle media: Vanity Fair, perhaps, or one of the major newsmagazines. But not even the undercover nerds at Ain't It Cool News got a peek. (AICN's big scoop, a year or so ago, was that the role of Silas, the murderous albino, might go to ... Jim Carrey! Paul Bettany...