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...maze of dusty side streets off Bole Road in the capital, Addis Ababa. The food is served on injera, a large piece of flat bread made from tef, a grain unique to the region. Injera may look like foam rubber, but its slightly sour taste is the perfect complement to spicy meat and vegetable dishes. Use chunks of injera to scoop up lamb and chicken cooked in kai wat, a fiery red sauce, or alicha wat, a milder yellow sauce. Wash it all down with a bottle of the local St. George beer-for less than $10 per person. Closed...
...been successful in China." The nation's obsession with sporty achievements dates back to Chairman Mao Zedong himself, who once demonstrated his vitality by swimming a stretch of the Yangtze River. Soon after the founding of the People's Republic, the Great Helmsman ordered a nationwide hunt for perfect physical specimens to embody the new China...
...city epitomizes the perfect storm engulfing Asia's roads, it is surely India's capital, New Delhi. Swarming the city's potholed streets are 4 million cars and trucks, 600,000 motorized two- and three-wheeled vehicles and innumerable bicycles and nonmotorized forms of transport ranging from trishaws to ox carts. There are also animals, everything from sacred cows to dogs, cats, monkeys?as well as countless pedestrians. The latter do not fare well in this free-for-all. New Delhi's newspapers recently labeled the city a "pedestrian graveyard." According to the capital's transport department, nearly half...
...publicity has hardly put a dent in the trade, largely because China's factories are getting so good at churning out nearly perfect fakes. (Discounter Daffy's, for example, claims it was duped into buying high-quality fake Gucci bags--and promptly took them off the shelves when Gucci complained.) China's counterfeiters have a system for classifying their reproductions. Bags that are virtually indistinguishable from the originals are class AA. This merchandise is exported almost exclusively to the West. Grade-A or -B fakes sell for less in the bazaars of China--although some make their...
...inevitably drapes over another's shoulder, and they appear to amuse one another endlessly with whispered asides. But because creating an aura of warmth is one of the reasons a candidate's family goes on the stump, many have wondered whether this group has really formed the perfect blended family it advertises itself...