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...Verdict: We decided we both enjoyed Crema Cafe's coffee the most. Lacking the harshness of Starbucks but also avoiding the blandness of HUDS, Crema Cafe struck a perfect balance between smoothness and depth. We value smooth consistency in our coffees and a subtle kick that adds without distracting from the flavor...
...people trapped beneath piles of debris were dug out by rescue officials. Azam Muhammed, a 25-year-old construction laborer, was rescued six hours after the blast. Just minutes after the muezzin's call to prayer was sounded, he was about to break his Ramadan fast when the explosion struck. Like scores of other victims, he was taken to the city's Mirwais Regional Hospital, where he lay in pain on a bed amid the smell of antiseptic. Gul Muhammed, his brother, who took him there, says Azam is one of the more fortunate victims. "He was pulled...
...current contract was struck decades ago, when the country needed to rebuild its industrial capacity after World War II. The challenge then was to ensure producers could produce. Political and business leaders resorted to guaranteed job security and total employment as the primary forms of welfare, while workers were supposed to plug any gaps in the social safety net themselves with prodigious savings. Strategic industries were propped up to protect jobs. This system worked fine when earnings were plentiful during the postwar boom. But today the policies sap the strength of small- and medium-sized businesses, a major source...
...feng knows she was one of the lucky ones. "My husband thought we were washed away," says Wu, a pregnant preschool teacher, sitting in a shelter for typhoon victims in the small town of Cishan in southern Taiwan. When Typhoon Morakot struck the island on Aug. 8, bringing nearly 9 ft. (around 2.5 m) of rain and the island's worst floods in over 50 years, Wu grabbed her 1-year-old son and climbed three hours to higher ground. There, she and hundreds of people from her village waited three stormy days and nights before military helicopters rescued...
...Typhoons regularly sweep over Taiwan, but few living on the island today have seen anything like Morakot. It was the deadliest natural disaster to hit the island since a magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck in 1999, killing over 2,400. The storm dumped a year's worth of rain on the island in three days, leading to floods that left at least 136 dead and nearly 400 missing, as well as widespread damage...