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...senior citizen leads a life as eventful as those of the women on The Golden Girls, it's Leni Riefenstahl. The director of aesthetically innovative Nazi propaganda films turned 100 last week, but she's still zippy enough to stir up controversy, most recently over who should play her in a movie about her life. A prominent name mentioned at one point was Jodie Foster, who was developing a now stalled project. Working on a competing film was director Paul Verhoeven, who reports that he communicated with Riefenstahl by mail and through the producer on the project. "The producer told...
Members of the German parliament don't usually create much of a stir outside Europe. But Hermann Scheer electrified a Washington audience last month with his gale-force enthusiasm. Nuclear fission and fossil-fuel burning amount to "global pyromania," he told a conference of environmental activists. "Renewable energy is the fire extinguisher." By mid-century, he asserted confidently, wind, solar and other renewables can snuff out all conventional energy sources...
...Nanjing's best kept secret is its crayfish, a freshwater crustacean that resembles a tiny lobster. Although stir-fried whole crayfish can be found in other cities, Nanjing's rich, savory version is unrivaled. They are spicy but not overly fiery, richly flavored but still fresh-tasting. Crayfish are messy to eat, however, so bring a stack of napkins. Then, as delicately as possible, bite off the head and tear open the shell. The snack is hugely popular: vendors sell it from large cast-iron woks on the street, takeout places offer it by the tray, and dozens of restaurants...
...limits sailing race around the world. Melville wouldn't have recognized them: today's racing sailboats consist of two ultralight carbon-fiber hulls stuffed full of computers, with a trampoline strung between them for a deck. In Tim Zimmerman's account of the competition, titled simply The Race, stir-crazy, sleep-deprived crews sail these wind-powered funny cars across the sea at 40 knots (about 45 m.p.h.), swerving wildly around icebergs, battling e-mail viruses and pushing the boats to their limits--the vast sails are so powerful that they're constantly on the verge of tearing themselves apart...
Debates about the efficacy of vegetarianism follow us from cradle to wheelchair. In 1998 child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock, who became a vegetarian late in life, stoked a stir by recommending that children over the age of 2 be raised as vegans, rejecting even milk and eggs. The American Dietetic Association says it is possible to raise kids as vegans but cautions that special care must be taken with nursing infants (who don't develop properly without the nutrients in mother's milk or fortified formula). Other researchers warn that infants breast-fed by vegans have lower levels...