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...disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation. In the 2003 edition of his guide, he strikes back, skewering pubs for misleading customers with fancy names and elaborate descriptions like "fresh tuna on a futon of leaves" for a salad garnish or "fried pork pojarski served on a bed of rocket with a cordon of sauce smitane" for a pork cutlet in cream sauce. "Good pubs rely on the quality of their cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village...
...Balkan wars - and then stayed on. But last week, a homegrown foe appeared, as they linked a local Bosnian man to the al-Qaeda network. Sabahudin Fiuljanin, 32, was detained six weeks ago near Eagle Base, the U.S. military encampment in northern Bosnia. Searches of his home uncovered a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, three passports acquired in the first half of 2001 and, most significantly, an Islamic last will and testament known as a vasiet, in which, a Western official told TIME, Fiuljanin wrote to his wife and four children: "When you find this letter, do not be sorry. Paradise...
...spot in the top 10 percent of his class at boot camp, Myat San went on to Officer Cadet School. Here, he and comrades learned how to act efficiently as a part of a platoon, role-playing different ranks and training with all kinds of weaponry, from grenades to rocket launchers. “You live and die with your M-16,” he says. “It becomes your wife...
...Joshua's fanfare of horns before the walls of Jericho, the U.S. intends to scare the pants off its enemies. In the southern no-fly zone, leaflets are being dropped warning, none too subtly, precisely what will happen to individual Iraqi soldiers if they choose to resist. (Think a rocket smashing into an Iraqi gunner's battery with such force that it leaves nothing but iron filings and body parts.) Such operations don't always go according to plan. On Oct. 3, a U.S. A-10 attack plane was dropping leaflets in southern Iraq warning Iraqis not to fire...
...China's 1.3 billion population helped the country to rocket from backwater to the world's biggest mobile phone market, with nearly 200 million subscribers, in just a few years. (The U.S., in second place, has about 150 million.) But now, the law of large numbers is working against the country's cellular duopoly, China Mobile and China Unicom. Earlier this year, China's heady subscriber growth rate started to sag; after surging 60% in 2000 and 88% in 2001, growth this year is projected to fall to 40%. Suddenly China isn't the world's hottest market?that...