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...keep away everyone but hard-core party activists and the pitifully lonely, but it can actually lead to an informed decision. And while three hours seems like a lot to give up for democracy, it's shorter than that last Lord of the Rings movie. The lack of a secret ballot does make some people nervous, but having to declare your political opinion in public probably keeps people from voting for things they should be ashamed of, such as liking cats. Plus there's something nice about getting together with your neighbors to eat cookies and talk about politics. Once...
...lekn, who recently published the first volume of his musical works on mushrooms, may be a bit extreme, but the Czechs are nuts about mushrooms. Seven of 10 Czechs spend at least one day a year foraging. Though every forager keeps his best places secret, mushrooms can be found in almost any kind of forest. But it's not a sport for the uninitiated. There are some 1,500 edible varieties and hundreds of poisonous ones, and the safe and the unsafe often look remarkably alike. Beginners are advised to take along a trained mycologist...
...residents and Boston politicians, Harvard’s initial entry into the Allston neighborhood—through a series of secret land deals that were divulged in 1997—felt like an invasion. Yet the University seemingly ignored community protestations when it bought a 91-acre swath from the cash-strapped Massachusetts Turnpike Authority last year. Harvard will need the good will of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to gain zoning permissions for the Allston development. If the mayor feels that he has been marginalized throughout the planning process, Harvard will find itself in a weaker bargaining position...
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's apparent decision to come clean on his secret nuclear-weapons program could prove to be a major achievement in the world's bid to rein in rogue nuclear nations. But it has also shown how far there still is to go. Since 1980, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Libya, a signatory of the 1970 Nonproliferation Treaty, and routinely reported that they found no evidence of a nuclear-weapons program, although they did stress that they could not guarantee their information was complete. Last week IAEA inspectors visited nine nuclear sites...
...debts; his mother left when David was 5. His father's many frauds left Le Carre with a natural gift for duplicity that he turned to professional advantage. For an undisclosed period of time from the late 1940s into the 1960s, he worked for Her Majesty's Secret Service, though he is quick to downplay his exploits. "I was never James Bond or anything like it," he insists. "I sat behind a desk...