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...Imported chefs have been offering the homesick lads ladle after ladle of stewed chickpeas and the national dish, haricot beans (thankfully, antacid is not on the list of proscribed drugs). Spain, too, decided to go easy on the local cuisine. Team members rescued a puppy from a dog-meat stall in an Ulsan market. The fortunate canine, named 'Camach?n' after Spain's coach Jos? Antonio Camacho, is now the unofficial team mascot instead of a menu item. ?By Andrew Finkel and Jane Walker
...with Latvia. The country faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only cyclical," Okada carps, "it doesn't represent a full recovery...
...around, and the creeping fear that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit Nike clothing shipped down from China. Her stall in the town of Chiang Rai is one of dozens clustered near a towering sign that welcomes visitors to the Golden Triangle. Across the main road, the strip of guesthouses, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and accompanying lurid signage expands daily. "I used to grow tomatoes and tobacco...
...totally thought I’d get all up in that. So I thought I’d ‘flip her the Byrd,’ if you know what I’m saying—show her my nuts. Then, she backs into the toilet stall, sits down and—how should I put this?—drops a huge deuce.” In the week since the incident, Byrd has not shown signs of being amused by his blockmates’ repeated offers to let him stand in the bathroom while they...
...rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor? It's the reason for the holiday, after all - and for Europe, it also remains a vexing economic dilemma. The U.S. recovery from its 2001 economic stall and the Sept. 11 shock showed that Europe still has to take its lead from America's high-productivity economy. And despite much progress in recent years, too many Europeans still aren't working. Businesses and the European Central Bank continue to prescribe flexibility - making it easier to fire...