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...suicide bombers, some analysts fear that a deadlier wave of terror may be unleashed upon the region. "In every conflict there comes a point when it produces the kind of person willing to die," says Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book Inside al-Qaeda. "That time is now ripe in Southeast Asia...
...subtle humor that is malicious deception and dream crushing. I’ll be older, but most likely I will not look back on my college years and wonder how my life would have been different if I were a green 21 when I graduated, rather than a ripe...
...Eternal Evil of Asia,? from Chin Man-kei (whose credits include the lesbian-witch romp ?Sex and Zen II? and ?The Fruit Is Swelling,? a twisting of ?Big? into the against-all-odds-charming pedophile fable of an eight-year-old girl with a ripe 18-year-old body), Tsui Kam-kong, the Bluto of Hong Kong sex movies, is turned into a literal dick-head. (Circumcised, since you asked.) Another man falls under a hunger spell while at a restaurant. He eats all his Mediterranean noodles, then the fingers of one customer and the face of another. Finally...
Fugakyu is most famous, however, not for its traditional nigiri sushi as for its impressive array of Americanized maki rolls. Caterpillar roll, containing barbecued eel and cucumber surrounded by rice and thin slivers of ripe avocado, was a successful (and amusing) concoction. The sweetness of the barbecue sauce worked well countered by a drop of the potent wasabi and a slice of the pickled ginger. Spider roll, containing an entire deep-fried soft-shell crab, was a delicious, gut-busting treat. Eating the mammoth rolls was quite a challenge—but one well worth taking...
Indeed, the issue of school choice is ripe for student reflection. An IOP discussion group, Politics for Dummies, recently identified “What is School Choice?” as a question of political salience. One of the group’s student leaders remarked that the group shared an interest in education and saw it “as a priority when thinking about candidates in the upcoming elections.” More encouraging still were the questions these students raised regarding the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, and more critical yet, the factors that...