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Violence may be down 60%, but that only brings the city back to 2006 levels. Life in Baghdad in January 2008 is still a far cry from normalcy. Those of us who were here in 2003 and 2004 remember the backed-up traffic and streets wheezing with raw, unencumbered capitalism, let loose after decades of state-controlled socialism. Back then we ate lunch at hole-in-the chicken shacks. Today, those places literally are holes in the walls...
...Suwung project is a nice start, and one that will directly benefit the residents of Bali. As Bakken leads a tour around the edges of the landfill, he points out a trash-strewn creek flowing between the raw piles of waste and a surprisingly vibrant thatch of mangroves. Sprigs of jatropha - a tropical shrub that can be harvested to produce clean biodiesel - are already growing on the slopes of garbage. "We're going to green this landfill," says Bakken. "One day this is going to be a park." Squint enough - and hold your nose against the smell...
Obama crushed the first vote, not only in raw numbers, but in pure awesomeness. Margie and her supporters clapped and chanted and jumped around in their beads. Meanwhile, when the Obama supporters started to chant "Fired up! Ready to go!" into an MSNBC camera, David Gobberdiel, the assistant precinct captain of the far nerdier Clinton crew sighed, smiled and said, "Too much...
Typically, the whale's so-called lean meat - from the breast and the tail - are served up. But whale isn't only served slathered with some kind of condiment or sauce. Gourmands can slurp a long, thin sashimi cut of raw minke breast meat - slippery like a fat noodle - with a hint of sesame oil in any of the half dozen or so restaurants in Tokyo that specialize in whale. Sliced whale cartilage is prepared as a "sunomono salad and prized for its distinctive not-quite crunchy texture," says Japanese food specialist and author Elizabeth Andoh. The salad looks like...
...Indeed, the secular observation of Christmas strikes not a few ironic chords. For one, Christmas persisting even in the absence of Christianity testifies to the raw force of inertia in long-observed customs. Those former Christians who have cast away their faith may think themselves more open-minded and rational, but they are merely paying homage to a mindless and irrational, albeit pleasant, tradition by continuing to celebrate the holiday...