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...grew up in upstate New York and went to school in Lockport, where there was a sizable black contingent of students. They lived-it sounds so awful-in a place called Lower Town. The white people tended to live in Uptown. Quite literally, there was a long hill, a really steep hill. Those kids to me, they were just very fascinating. Very vivid personalities, very strong definite personalities. They were obviously living in a segregated city, and yet I didn't know that. Children don't really know those things...
...very least, I’ve tried to incorporate Scotland into my “personal repertoire.” For me, home is not the quaint town of Edinburgh or the tall castles of Europe. For better and for worse, my roots remain in New Jersey. But while I will always remain loyal to that widely disparaged municipal territory, with its less-than picturesque turnpike, chutzpah-infused accent, and uniquely fragrant shore breeze, I’m thankful for the opportunity to participate in such a thrilling tour...
...world's six floral kingdoms. Thanks[an error occurred while processing this directive] to the incredible variety of fynbos, the Western Cape region is almost as botanically diverse as the entire northern hemisphere. Since early 2005, Roberto de Carvalho, executive chef at Azure, a restaurant in Cape Town's Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa, has used fynbos leaves and stems in place of regular herbs and spices in some of his favorite dishes. "You're eating something that you can only eat here," says De Carvalho, who collects the fynbos in the hills around the hotel every morning...
...Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border On Scene: It's business as usual on the Chinese border town of Dandong, which continues to trade briskly with 'those stupid bastards' across the Yalu
...Helicopters attacked a madrassa near the town of Khar just before dawn, drowning out the muezzin's call to prayer with a barrage of bullets and missiles. Within two hours the main building of the seminary had collapsed, killing some 80 men inside, according to local witnesses. The madrassa was reputed to be a refuge for local and Afghan Taliban, and its firebrand leader, Maulvi Liaqatullah - believed to have been killed in attack, according to army spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan - was a vocal Taliban supporter...