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...eating or animal feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine is our values and our gift to the world. It's pureness, freshness, enjoyment and happiness...
...soon find itself bought out by rivals. (Its stock slumped again on Sept. 19, amid rumors of an imminent takeover bid.) Are other British banks similarly vulnerable? Less so, since they never relied on the credit markets to the degree Northern Rock did. Even so, "we'll see a slow pull back" in their reliance on other banks for cash, reckons BGC Partners' Wheeldon. Looking at the consequences of Northern Rock's over-reliance on a single, unexpectedly risky revenue stream, he says, "they will have learned lessons...
Then there's the problem of tempo. Other modern movies move at warp speed, but the cowboy hero is a man with a slow hand. As Christopher Frayling, author of biographies of Eastwood and Leone, notes, "You can speed up spaceships and cars, but you can't speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before...
...slow end to a sizzling summer along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean has brought harvest season to the Bekaa Valley. The fertile basin just over Lebanon's coastal mountain range may be well known as a hotbed of Shi'ite militancy that has at various times hosted some of the world's most notorious terrorists, but it is also home to Lebanon's wine industry. It's a very Lebanese experience to watch Bedouin farm workers in the early morning light that illuminates distant mosques, as they carry crateloads of grapes to be pressed into a liquid that Islamic...
While city officials plan to provide free wireless to all Cambridge residents, recent progress has been slow. Organizers are awaiting a soon-to-be published feasibility report before the pilot program can be expanded to all of Cambridge...