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...addition to printing each restaurant’s overall score along with details about cuisine, location, and entrée price, Boston magazine also included a section of tip-offs to star dishes called “Order This...
...crop in Burma hasn't been affected: poppies, the colorful blooms that have been processed into opium for thousands of years, and, in more recent history, refined into heroin. A Feb. 2 report by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime found that the price of opium in Burma, also known as Myanmar, increased by 15% last year. As a result, Burmese land dedicated to poppy cultivation actually expanded in 2008, despite promises by the country's ruling junta to combat its reputation as one of the world's most notorious narco-states...
...badly needs Russia's help in Afghanistan, and Moscow can't afford to let the NATO mission there fail for the sake of Russia's own security. But Russia will extract a geopolitical price for its cooperation - and the resulting bargaining process could be lucrative for those caught in between. That's the message of Tuesday's bombshell dropped by Kyrgyzstan: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev ordered the U.S. to close down an air base in his tiny central Asian country that is used to provide key air support for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan...
Since then, future oil prices have come closer together, averaging just over a dollar between contract months over the next year, or slightly more than the $1.02 per barrel per month price tag that Morgan Stanley had reportedly been negotiating in mid-January. The apparent correction is unlikely to have been caused directly by an institution like Morgan Stanley, but instead by a perception among traders that the average $1.25 spread between monthly contracts is reasonable. Of course, leasing a tanker is an extreme measure of storage, and the cost of storing at a more traditional location is much lower...
...Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon tea accompanied a less rarified interchange. The newspaper claimed that some peers may be willing to amend laws on behalf of business clients for fees of up to ?120,000 ($170,000) a year...