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...begun jostling her own memory as well. She wants the pain for its intimacy. She has been eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter, Greg's favorite combination, and shocked herself by craving Taco Bell, food he loved but she had long disdained. On Thanksgiving, after having turkey at her parents' house and dessert with Greg's family, she might just eat a late-night peanut-butter sandwich as he used to do. On Oct. 8, she watched a home video for the first time. Greg was offscreen, but that was precisely the point: all she wanted...
...time in 31 years, Thanksgiving this year falls during Ramadan, the month-long period of fasting and thanks celebrated by Muslims all over the world. So in many households this year the two holidays will merge. Muslims in Iowa--old families from Lebanon and Syria and new immigrants from Turkey, Tunisia, Pakistan and Afghanistan--will gather in Cedar Rapids at the oldest mosque in North America and break their Ramadan fast with a Thanksgiving feast of turkey and stuffing, grape leaves, flatbread, cranberry sauce and kibbe--a Lebanese dish of cracked wheat, meats and spices...
Luke and Nicole Wooten are expecting their third baby on Thanksgiving, so this year the family will be coming to them--turkey in the maternity ward, if it comes to that. Actually Nicole has been reading up on home birthing; hospitals seem like risky, contaminated places these days. She's also worried about playing host to a big event when her kitchen is being remodeled; maybe this is the year to have Thanksgiving pizza. "The holiday is not about making the perfect cranberry sauce," she says...
...security force and transitional regime installed. Western powers, supported by Russia and Iran, backed a Security Council plan adopted Wednesday night to authorize a mission to Afghanistan that includes a two-year transitional government backed by a multinational peacekeeping force, composed of troops sent by such Muslim nations as Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia and Bangladesh...
Segat declined to comment on her political and legal plans. When asked what she would do during the two weeks until the recount, she said, “I’m going to cook a turkey, and hopefully my kids will...