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...built into an open-air veranda with views across the city; the Crystal room houses two antique Zanzibari beds and a handblown glass chandelier. But the crowning attraction is the restaurant. The fixed-price ($25-$30) dinner typically comprises local seafood, meat and vegetables infused with the spices that thrive in Zanzibar's hot, humid climate: cloves, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon. Try boku-boku, the rich beef dish traditionally made for people returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Seated on sumptuous Arabian cushions, filled with good wine and fine food, I feel like I'm floating on a five-star...
...family--defined as built on the union of male and female--from my perspective is the foundation of society. The United States could survive without ideologies on left and right, without the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, but if you look at social-science data, we cannot thrive if we continue to see the disintegration of the unit of the family...
John Kerry was annoyed. "I need some food, guys," he huffed at staff, in a moment captured by ABC news. "I can't thrive on nothing." But then, everyone associated with the Democratic primaries seemed slightly annoyed last week. And flu-ridden and exhausted and discombobulated by a hypercompressed schedule that forced sleepless, instantaneous decisions about the most basic political issues--scheduling, spending and, for some, quitting. A strange existential distortion had taken hold of the process. It seemed near an end without ever having crystallized. The candidates had debated ceaselessly without having a single legitimate debate, one that would...
...tested positive for avian flu, with another three under observation. Local papers also reported that two people suspected of having the disease had died, and the Agriculture Ministry admitted that more than 6 million chickens had already been culled. As China learned after its SARS coverup last year, viruses thrive in a climate of secrecy and denial?and can cost a country dearly. The E.U., Japan and other countries immediately banned the import of Thai chickens. Thaksin's own credibility has also taken a hit. Thai officials anonymously told local newspapers they were aware of the presence of avian...
...samplers like those aboard Spirit prove that Mars dust isn't poisonous, it would be a relatively straightforward job to assemble a greenhouse-like enclosure, raise the temperature, pump up the atmosphere and plant a few seeds. Donald Henninger, a NASA chief scientist, has identified 13 crops that could thrive in a space habitat, including wheat, potatoes, soybeans and salad greens. "You can take stored food along, but how long does it last?" he asks...