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...emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending in the U.S. courts for more than three years...
...Sebastián, they spent two hours convincing the Civil Guard that the contraption in the trunk was intended for cooking vegetables, and not, say, blowing up train stations. The newer, sleeker version of the Gastrovac, developed earlier this year, still looks like a pressure cooker attached by rubber hose to a high-tech hot plate, but its functions are thoroughly space age. By lowering atmospheric pressure, it brings liquids to boil at temperatures much lower than normal - 55?C for water, 80?C for oil - while still cooking more quickly than traditional vacuum cookers. Lower temperatures and shorter cooking...
...emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending in the U.S. courts for more than three years. Within the country, the tension between the surging economy and stagnant politics is palpable. Nazarbayev, popularly referred...
...While laying possibly the most crucial part of the turf—the sand and rubber fill that simulates soil—rain jeopardized the field’s ability to be ready by the season’s start...
...When it came time to lay that down, that’s when we had some pretty heavy rains for about a week straight,” Sullivan says. “The rubber would have been fine but the sand would have been mud and that wouldn’t have worked. But, that was the only real delay that happened with that...