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Heirs to a rich and varied cuisine, Turks, like Italians, are notoriously conservative about their food: when it comes to kebabs, it's Mama's way or the highway. But as non-native ingredients become more readily available and foreign cuisines gain influence, a coterie of Istanbul restaurants are reinventing Turkish food...
...Medvedev supervises Gazprom's exports, brushing off allegations of Gazprom being Russia's "pipeline troops," poised to accomplish with energy what the U.S.S.R. used to do with tanks. "There is no politics in our relations with other countries. Just business," he says. And business is booming. Russia is energy rich. Its oil and gas reserves account for more than 20% of its $1 trillion economy...
...Thousand Splendid Suns probably won't be as commercially successful as Hosseini's first novel, but it is, to put it baldly, a better book. Where The Kite Runner told an appealing but somewhat programmatic tale of redemption, Suns is a dense, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable. (Though there's still plenty of action: "I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader," Hosseini admits.) Where the characters in The Kite Runner ran heavily to unredeemable sinners and spotless saints, in Suns the characters are more complex and paradoxical--more human...
...people who know Gore assume he's biding his time, waiting to pounce; since he's at 12% in the polls-tied with John Edwards, without even being in the race-he would easily get on the primary ballots if he declared before the deadlines. He may not be rich enough to self-finance, but with his Apple and Google stock, Web following and Silicon Valley connections, money wouldn't be a huge problem either. "He just has to say the word," says a wealthy friend. But those who know him well would be very surprised if it happened...
...Choi is probably Korea's best-known gamer, having clinched the gold medal at last year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky...