Word: sours
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...seen unprecedented economic gains, a freer media and better infrastructure, but his increasingly ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have eroded public confidence. A recent survey by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute found that Musharraf's ratings have reached rock bottom. "As the national mood continues to sour, President Musharraf continues to bear the brunt of this voter dissatisfaction and his approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 21%, from a high of 63% in September 2006," says the report...
Children in Taiji often wolf down tasty school lunches of short-finned pilot whale. Deep-fried dolphin and sweet-and-sour minke whale are also occasional cafeteria offerings in this small fishing town, where sea mammals have long been considered a reliable source of protein. Taiji (pop. 3,600) is proudly regarded as the birthplace of Japan's 400-year-old whaling industry. But Hisato Ryono, a local assemblyman whose uncle used to work as a commercial whaler, is having second thoughts about schools serving his sons flippered fare. Not because he is finally bowing to international opposition...
...Already by March 2006, it was clear that the Orange Revolution had began to turn sour, when the Party of the Regions (PR) led by Victor Yanukovych - the Moscow ally who had lost the presidential race to Yushchenko - won a 32% plurality of the votes in the legislative election. The BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, erstwhile flamboyant princess of the Orange Revolution who had been fired as premier by Yushchenko six months earlier, finished second. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine (OU) barely made the third place...
...pepper. As a finishing touch I drizzled on balsamic-cherry syrup. I could not have been more pleased with the result. The brininess of the cheese wonderfully complemented the plump, juicy figs, and the syrup seeped in with the lemon juice to create a delightful balance of sweet and sour. I next seared the foie gras on the grill and heated up some of the cranberry jam in my microwave to give it a more sauce-like consistency. I stirred a tablespoon of rendered duck fat into the jam for richness, and spooned this atop the crisp toast next...
...hard, knowing and Freon-cool, and as ruthless in bed as in interrogating a Resistance suspect. As for the previously unknown Tang Wei, she's not a big-eyed cutie like those three-China favorites Faye Wong or Vicky Zhao Wei. She's more in the fashion of the sour beauties of Shanghai's film and music scene in the 40s. Her style and sensuality have to be discovered, peeled off layer by layer, as Yee does to Wang in the movie...