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...poorest countries in the world. Although the promise of offshore oil and natural gas tantalizes the nation's finance czars, there's little to fuel the economy except for one notable exception: coffee. Cultivated from plantations started by the Portuguese, East Timorese coffee is a wonderful thing: rich, nutty, smooth. Starbucks apparently thinks so, too, because it is one of the top purchasers of Timorese coffee. Yet a search of Starbucks' U.S. website, which lists the provenance of all its bean blends, comes up with no results for coffee from East Timor. There are, however, plenty of mentions of Indonesian...
...Hard-liners who had pushed for the isolation of North Korea pounced, suggesting the Administration was downplaying the uranium program to smooth the way for talks with the North. However, Hill said that while the U.S. lacks hard evidence, it intends to press Pyongyang for "complete clarity" on the program. Indeed, rather than lightening up on the North, U.S. Treasury Department officials appear poised to issue permanent sanctions against Banco Delta Asia, the Macau bank where about $24 million in assets allegedly belonging to North Korean officials have been frozen on grounds that the money is linked to illicit North...
Flying isn't so smooth at Alitalia, the wobbly Italian flagship carrier now being sold by the state that could fit nicely into Air France--KLM. Although several other companies have made bids for Alitalia, a stake in the airline would give Air France a dominant position in the lucrative Italian market and more heft and coverage of its international network. Air France scarcely hides its interest in the strategic allure of linking up with Alitalia, but last month it refused to make a bid for a 49.9% stake the Italian government put on the market, which by law would...
...struggled to gain mental focus for the first two games of the match.“Our bodies were rested,” co-captain Dave Fitz said. “At Monday practice, everyone was jumping really high, but practice wasn’t that smooth. Mentally we were out of it a little bit, and I think that carried over tonight.”The Engineers (21-3, 9-0 NECVA), ranked 10th nationally by the AVCA, entered the match with confidence. MIT proved comparable to Harvard in team kills, knocking out 49 and 52, respectively...
...Murs Beat,” and “Get It” are striking examples of this formula. “Beyond” is also easily the best track on the album. The mixing at the beginning of the song is so smooth that the vocals sound like electronics and the drums, once added, never disappear entirely, so the song has a more natural consistency than others on the album. “Murs Beat” is “The Third Hand” at its most experimental, as the drums and any trace...