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...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...says Nusara Thaitawat, a former journalist and the author of Cuisine of Cambodia. And the business is creating a chain of modest wealth for farmers and sellers, making insects a commodity distributed across Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. The meat and potatoes, so to speak, of the insect biz are grasshoppers, beetles and bamboo worms. Some delectables, such as spiders, remain specialty items. "They...
...events considered harmful to the Palestinian side results in immediate restriction of access to Palestinian Authority sources and even jeopardizes the physical safety of correspondents in the region. Events surrounding the Oct. 12, 2000 lynching of two Israeli reservists by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah illustrated this intimidation perfectly. RAI, Italy's state television news network, which the Palestinian Authority believed had released the now-famous footage of the murders, attempted to reassure Arafat's government, claiming in a letter, "We always respect the journalistic rules of the Palestinian Authority for work in Palestine...you can be sure that this...
...Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/ Bombay, Saritha Rai/ Bangalore and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi
...excerpt Rushdie chose on Monday diverged from that theme, focusing on the beginning of Rai's career as a photographer and the exposure of a nationwide scam...