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...estimated 16,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo fear a repeat of the violent riots of March 2004 aimed at minority Serbs and Roma. Kosovar Prime Minister Agim Ceku has warned that the region may declare independence unilaterally if the deadlock persists. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer", says Agron Bajrami, editor of Koha Ditore, a Pristina daily. But if there is no movement before expected elections this fall, "even the mainstream parties will be tempted to adopt extreme strategies." Then there could be more than just fireworks...
Eating Around the World While reading through your Summer Journey Special Issue [June 25-July 2], featuring a novel's worth of reporting on food, I noticed comments about people being very conservative and preferring the particular flavors they encountered as children. That is not always the case. When I was 18, I became a vegan and tried tofu for the first time, but I was not put off by its strangeness. When I was 20, I went to France from Canada and tried the best food I had ever eaten. Daniel Owens, Paris...
...fair starts out rampant and eager and ends with balloons sagging and stomachs queasy--which is not a bad summary of life itself. This is why the fair survives, drawing an estimated 150 million visitors in counties and states across the country each summer, in spite of theme parks and arcades of infinitely greater sophistication, in spite of Orlando, in spite of Las Vegas...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Homeland Security Secretary, on his "gut feeling" that terrorists could strike the U.S. this summer...
...Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles during the worldwide Great Depression, could aptly be referred to as the hard-luck games. No other city even bid to host the Games, and fewer than half as many athletes took part in the Games as had participated in 1928. U.S. President Herbert Hoover didn't even attend the Games. That clearly didn't matter, however, to Alice Eileen Wearne, who ran the 100-m dash but did not earn a medal. Wearne went on to participate in the 1938 British Empire Games, which were held in her hometown of Sydney, finished third...