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...Muhlstein describe 30 years of exploring the backstreets of La Serenissima. In Damascus: Taste of a City, resident Marie Fadel writes vividly to her brother, an exiled journalist in Germany, of a walk through the Old City, weaving in recipes for Damascene dishes like tis'iyye, a spicy chickpea soup. While readers may find it easy enough to undertake some of the journeys, like the Venetian tour, others, like the sea passage, are likely to stay true to the name of the series, enjoyed from the depths of a comfy chair...
...matters. Even in the chaos of 1918, people who knew what to expect and had been trained did their duty, often in heroic fashion. San Francisco was the only major city in which the local leadership told the truth about the disease. It organized emergency hospitals, volunteer ambulance drivers, soup kitchens and the like in advance. There, although fear certainly showed itself, it did not paralyze. If we prepare well enough, we won't need heroes; we'll just need people doing their jobs...
...jack-o'-lanterns last year when the townsfolk gathered a mere 27,584 carved pumpkins (1,368 below their 2003 world record). They'll be going for the gold again on Oct. 22, amid pumpkin-carving, pie-eating and seed-spitting contests, orange fireworks and lots of pumpkin soup and cookies. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
While the roommates learned a lot, they also saw their missions as a way to give back. Though they did little traditional community service, they see spreading the message of their church as even more important than working in soup kitchens or building houses...
...police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known as the Colonel," he deadpanned. "They were responsible for a lot of stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves by repeating that passengers have...