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Traffic lights suddenly went black in Hamburg, Germany's biggest port, on Saturday afternoon after a nearby nuclear reactor called Krümmel shut down when a transformer short-circuited. Although nobody was hurt and the lights were back on by nightfall, the accident has reignited the debate over nuclear power in Europe's most vehemently anti-nuclear country. But as Germany gears up for federal elections in September, a generational shift in attitude could mean that opposition to nuclear power isn't the vote winner it once...
Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco died. The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series. NBC aired the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live. And also in 1975, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invited the heads of state and government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in his country. The seeds were sown for what we now know as the Group of Eight...
...YORK, N.Y. — In Red Hook, Brooklyn, where crumbling warehouses butt up against a shiny new Ikea, summer weekends mean huaraches and hipsters. Every Saturday and Sunday, a band of pan-Latin food carts flank the edges of the neighborhood soccer fields, serving dishes like the Mexican cornmeal huarache, and bringing with them a crowd eager for gustatory experience...
...arrived at the fields last Saturday at noon and lines were already forming for a cart selling pupusas, a flat Salvadorian bread made with maize and stuffed with cheese, pork, or beans. Each pupusa comes with a serving of pickled cabbage. The sharpness of the vinegar cuts the grease of the bread—or so thought the man in front of me. As patron after patron received their plastic dish, he would point and nod at his girlfriend. “A pupusa—A Salvadorian pupusa...
...after bashing the international community last week for refusing to recognize his authority, took a slightly more conciliatory tone after the protests. While still refusing to reinstate Zelaya, he said he would be open to "good-faith negotiations" with the Organization of American States (OAS), which suspended Honduras on Saturday over the coup. "There are times for dialogue and times for negotiation," Micheletti told reporters at a news conference on Sunday. How readily the OAS will bargain with an administration that came to power via a coup, whose soldiers have now fired on unarmed demonstrators, remains to be seen...