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...southern Europe - including the south of France - tend to be more integrated into families than in the north. So the heat wave there was accordingly less deadly. Nice, Marseilles and Toulouse have preserved what Mantion calls "Latin attitudes," which consider older people valued and active members of society. The southeast and southwest had around 46% higher fatalities in the first three weeks of August compared to last year, versus 102% in Paris - a far more private and anonymous place. For now, though, with funerals still going on, it is easier to focus on the poor performance of the country...
...structures and tactics and successfully adapted to the new reality, decentralizing its already diffuse networks and making them even more difficult to penetrate. The U.S. and its allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear...
...Saints Cathedral Church in Nairobi, Kenya. "It's outrageous and uncalled for." Bishop Lim Cheng Ean, leader of the Anglican Church of West Malaysia, was only a bit less blunt: "Practicing homosexuality is culturally and legally not acceptable here." He indicated that the bishops in the nine-nation Southeast Asian province may consider severing relations with the U.S. church when they meet this week...
...Adam Busby, a Culinary Institute of America instructor at Greystone restaurant in the Napa Valley, Calif. "The philosophy is, Less is more," says Busby, who is teaching his students to use a range of pungent flavors from the "sun-spice belt" of Latin America, North Africa, southern India and Southeast Asia...
...columns so diners can customize their meals to suit their tastes--and wallets. In Chicago, there's newcomer Piattini ("small plates," in Italian). Mantis in Washington, which features pan-Asian tapas, recently opened its doors, and on the Strip in Las Vegas, the restaurant Prana has been offering Southeast Asian small plates to hungry gamblers since May. In Atlanta, there's a twist: trendy restaurants like Bluepointe are retrofitting bar food so guests can make an affordable meal out of several such appetizers...