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Napoleon once remarked that if the world were a single state, Istanbul would be its rightful capital. The Turkish city's fortunes have risen and fallen on the tides of empire, being last demoted when Ankara became the capital of the newly founded republic in 1923. But 2,700-year-old Istanbul is used to comebacks, and today the city is enjoying a massive revival, thanks to a deft mix of old and new. Driving toward the city center from the new airport, you pass through 5th century walls built by Emperor Theodosius II. Downtown, Roman, Byzantine and Otto...
Talking to Gurdal—a former Turkish Olympian turned Harvard volleyball coach—is an education in cheese and the cheesemaking process. His face becomes animated as he recounts his discoveries. Hillman Farm Goat Cheese is made by Carolyn Hillman, an artist, and her husband, the town fix-it-all, in a small town in western Massachusetts. “They’re wonderful,” Gurdal says. “Together, they tend to their herd of 60 goats and two pet oxen. Their raw milk tomme is aged eight months...
...church in Berlin's Kreuzberg area, Ismet Dertli puts the finishing touches on the curriculum for a new subject being offered in the city's public schools. It's a course that hasn't previously been taught in any government-sanctioned school, at least not for a few centuries: Turkish Alevism. This mystic brand of Islam is practiced by 25% of the more than 2.5 million Turks in Germany and up to 30% of Turkey's 66 million people - though you won't find them in any census. That's because Turkey, mindful of its fractious past, forbids large minorities...
...entire country against smallpox 300 people could die from reactions to the vaccine if everyone were inoculated 60% of Indonesia's 4 million civil servants are unqualified for their jobs, says the country's administrative reforms minister 15 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium was seized on Saturday by Turkish police in a province near the Syrian and Iraqi borders 23% of workers surveyed think news is the most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage...
...anti-U.S. segments were booed; at another they were cheered. All right, every movie is propaganda - for the director's political, emotional or social program. Dirty Pretty Things, for example, could be called an expos? of the inhuman conditions forced on an African doctor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Turkish woman (Amélie's Audrey Tautou) and other immigrants working in a London hotel. The movie clicks, however, because Steven Knight's script tucks sharply observed commentary into an appealing love story. Phillip Noyce's stylish The Quiet American, based on the 1954 Graham Greene novel, uncovers early U.S. chicanery...