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...late just how frustrated the Lebanese Shi'a were - frustrated by their own government, by the Palestinians, by the Americans, by the French, as well as by the invading Israelis. Nabatiyah quickly metastasized into a vicious 17-year guerrilla war. It would turn out to be Hizballah's Boston Tea Party, and led to Israel's first defeat in the field of battle when Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. For us, though, Nabatiyah should be a crucial lesson in how a small act of defiance can turn into a viral contagion. (See the top 10 awkward moments...
...long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed...
...reading tea leaves. Don't. I don't draw a very good tea leaf." - Dismissing reporters' questions after announcing his first indictment in the Plame scandal (San Francisco Chronicle, October...
...also are available. I opted for a conservative blue-gray bottle, but it comes in lots of colors and patterns, including argyle and houndstooth for more urbane sippers. The internal straw and bite mouthpiece made cleaning the bottle a little more tedious, especially after filling the bottle with iced tea, but it can be washed in the top rack of the dishwasher. Price: $11 (0.5 liter); $13 (0.75 liter); $15 (1 liter...
Melon caviar, spherical lemon tea, transparent pasta, and ham consommé are some of the foods that can be found at elBulli, Ferran Adrià’s three-Michelin-star restaurant in Catalonia, Spain. The world-renowned chef, known for mixing food and science, spoke about his novel creations to a packed audience last night in Jefferson Hall. Adrià has pioneered, for example, the art of melon caviar—he combines cantaloupe and water with the chemicals alginic acid and calcic to create the spherification of tiny caviar-like balls. The use of scientific techniques?...