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...Spencer and Pepper’s traditional recipes. In addition to jars of Gibralters and barrels of Black Jacks, the tiny one-room sweets store overflows with candies of all sorts—from hard candies such as “Sassafras Slugs” and “Root Beer Barrels,” to Grand Marnier, Amaretto and Irish Cream gourmet truffles, to white, milk and semi-sweet cherry cordials to fudge in “Fall flavors...
...what it could be, I saw the power to do much more than they were doing in the past to improve education." Under his watch, the board is issuing quite specific recommendations about what schools should teach--for instance, math lessons should include radical equations (such as 5 (square root of x) + 14 = 20; x = 1.44). Also, the board says most students should double the amount of time they spend writing (a laudable but pricey goal: some schools will have to initiate a round of hiring, since their teachers barely have time to grade kids' work...
...Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...
...sister's larger portions of meat. By the final pages of the book, Namu has beaten two people bloody, devastated a suitor, demolished a kitchen with an axe and fled her village with her mother flinging stones at her back. Through it all, she remains likable: you have to root for a girl trying so hard to leave her village on her own terms, something her mother tried to do but failed...
...come to for African and Caribbean staples. Tropical fruit and chili peppers add an exotic touch to the fruit and vegetable stalls. Take a stroll down the surrounding streets and discover specialty shops selling bolts of African wax cloth, plantains, sweet potatoes, dried fish, manioc and other mysterious root vegetables. Hawkers unloading cheap watches and perfume complete the feeling of being transported to another continent...