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...movie industry. But with one big difference. The existence of an adult classification inhibited American directors; they were unwilling to buck movie studios (which demanded an R or softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon Cat III was not just...
Trading conflict diamonds is already illegal; the Kimberly Process is just an attempt to enforce the law. Starting next year, all rough, unpolished diamonds must have certificates to prove that they do not come from “conflict” mines. Amnesty International, OXFAM, Global Witness and other human rights groups have spent years railing against conflict diamonds because the diamonds are a double dose of misery. In Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captures mines and then forces locals to forage through the mud looking for diamonds. After extracting days of slave labor from these hapless workers...
...European exploration of the continent's interior, and helped open it up for ranchers. Shipped over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least 200,000?the world's largest...
Roll out one of the crusts into a circle and place on a flour-dusted cookie sheet. Brush the top surface of the dough with egg white. Fold in the rough edges to make a uniformly smooth edge around the circle. Spread half the chevre mixture evenly in the center, leaving 3-4 inches of dough around the edge. Spread half the onions evenly over the chevre. Fold the crust over the filling in six even folds, tucking the final fold under the first, to make a roughly symmetrical, hexagon-shaped galette. A small window of onion will show...
...think for the most part we were in control of the game,” said junior forward Alisa Sato. “Just the critical five minutes at the beginning of the game was a little rough. Other than that we passed the ball, and we possessed it well. We just couldn’t finish...