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...Toko You, tel: (62-22) 250 3332, one of the best-known cafés in town. But instead of caffeine, have a small shot of jamu, or herbal drink. For some reason, they taste better there. I recommend the sweeter kind, like beras kencur, made with kencur root and rice powder. It's good for beginners and not as bitter or medicinal as the jamu more experienced drinkers enjoy. For lunch, I've always loved Warung Nasu Ibu Eha, tel: (62-22) 426 2745, a little food stall deep in the heart of Pasar Cihapit, one of the city...
...Science—incarnated with its high priests touting new social laws based on new research—comes dangerously close to the dogmatic and inflexible systems of belief that it originally replaced. Science needs to abandon its practice of prescribing advice for society and return to its root mission of exploring the mysteries of the universe. After all, the best human life cannot be discovered through peer-reviewed controlled tests; it can only be attempted through zeal, a bit of good luck, and an earnest desire to make the most of existence...
...Winter Root Vegetables & Tiny Ricotta Gnocchi at Upstairs on the Square: $20. Linguini with Meatballs at Bertucci’s: $12.25. Finding a scrumptiously satiating meal for less than 10 bucks: collegiate heaven. Luckily for Harvard students, there’s no need to hop on the Red Line and head to the North End for fabulous fusilli—it’s just a matter of walking to Mather. Three blocks down the road, at 319 Western Avenue, an unassuming Italian joint is nestled in a nook where few Harvard undergrads venture. Facing the busy street, a fresh...
...raucous London and Paris legs appear to have surprised Chinese officials. French popular concern over human rights conditions in China took root only following the brutal suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott...
...this really is the beginning of the end for Mugabe, it will have significance throughout Africa, where the years since Ghana first won its freedom in 1957 have been a serial, tragic disappointment, marked by war, genocide, poverty and famine. At the root of them all was ruinous leadership. With few exceptions, Africa's postindependence leaders wrested their continent back from colonial rule only to plunder it afresh. Contemptuous of their own people and often destined for a bloody end, many contrived to make their nations poorer than they were in colonial times...