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...double burner with 14 percent vanilla extract,” he says with obvious pride. I’m handed a white plastic tasting spoon and instructed to take a scoop. It’s reminiscent of a chilled cup of Burdick’s cocoa, without the stomach-sinking consistency...
...this day, getting to Pai demands initiative. The Thai government widened and paved the endless series of hairpin bends in 1980, but the stomach-churning journey from Chiang Mai still takes two to three hours by private van. Adventurous budget travelers were the first foreigners attracted to Pai's idyllic isolation, burbling streams, cylindrical haystacks and manicured fields of garlic and soybeans. If you overlook the thatched-roof bamboo huts, Muslim mosque?some of the KMT were Muslim Chinese?and Buddhist temples, the place looks almost like a Monet painting...
...stomach-clutching thud of an explosion rolled across Kabul at around 9pm last Saturday. It began with a flash in a small garbage pile on a grassy common outside a sprawling Soviet-era tenement. The building is home to several hundred families in the suburb of Microyan, and the detonation, only thirty yards from the ground floor apartments, shattered every window facing the park in the crumbling five-story block. Sleeping children woke terrified, coated in shards of glass. A three-year-old stood by her mother, her face laced with tiny cuts. Two or three people were reported injured...
...prevailed in persuading a majority of members to vote to recommend a four-year moratorium on the practice. The decision to support a moratorium rather than an outright ban was seen as a strategic decision by the more conservative members who knew that a ban would be harder to stomach. As council member and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel observed, “To accept a moratorium rather than a ban presupposes that maybe sometime down the road this would be morally permissible, and otherwise, the principled position is a ban… The moratorium doesn?...
...Taiwan seem remote. Still, wars can arise from misperceptions, and the disconnect between Chinese and U.S. positions leaves ample room for misunderstanding. Qiao Liang, a P.L.A. colonel who is about to publish a book called Decisive Strike, is among those in China who wonder if America has the stomach for a showdown. "Is the U.S. prepared to spend all its national wealth defending Taiwan?" he asks. "Because China will be a thousand Afghanistans...