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...Ahmadinejad needs to talk up the achievements of the nuclear program precisely because he has been unable to keep his chicken-in-every-pot election campaign promises. His posturing may have little to do with Iran's real intentions in the nuclear standoff with the West and much more to do with setting up a popularly acceptable compromise. Claiming, as Ahmadinejad did, that the fuel cycle had been mastered and Iran was now a "nuclear nation" could help persuade a domestic audience that Iran is not backing down on the "rights" it has so forcefully proclaimed if Tehran agrees...
...America, from his essay collection “Perfume Dreams.” “His writing represents the inevitability of some form of American assimilation that, while it is still taking place, we no longer have a good metaphor for. We keep denouncing the melting pot, but something of the sort keeps going on,” said Sollors of Lam. Lam detailed his resistance to his mother’s attempts to bind him to his culture by reading letters received from relatives left behind. “What did I do? I skimmed. I skipped...
...Pettigrew, a spokesman in the Boston office of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), underscored the federal government’s position that marijuana has no medicinal purposes, and that patients can receive similar effects from synthetic drugs such as Marinol.“People who want to smoke pot use medicine as an excuse to smoke pot,” Pettigrew said. “I don’t know a heroin addict that didn’t start by smoking a joint. The DEA has never targeted the sick and dying. But as long as marijuana exists...
...China in a bustling dining room kitted out with Asian-inspired furnishings. Next door, the eye-catching, raw-boned interiors of Riva, www.riva-duesseldorf.de, are background to Ralf Polfers' Continental cuisine, including such standouts as saffron fish cream soup and medallions of deer calf loin with pied de mouton mushrooms, pot-roasted vegetables and fried nut dumplings...
...Tainanese are at the extreme end of the scale. On Yenping Street in the city's Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits...