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...Bush Administration has dodged another electoral bullet south of the border, but only by the narrowest of margins. Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias was finally declared the winner of Costa Rica?s presidential election on Tuesday-ending a tense, month-long manual vote recount that almost put another anti-U.S. leftist in power in Latin America, this time in one of the region?s most traditionally stable and U.S.-friendly nations...
...addiction that is promoted on the web site of the renowned Hazelden clinic. "Read this book!" Dr. Smith writes. "Here are the real winners in life. The best and the brightest with devastating illnesses, living clean, sober, confident, happy lives." He is identified as the "psychiatric consultant to the U. S. Congress" for the past 12 years...
...district is named after Jan Zizka, a one-eyed Czech Protestant warrior who, in 1420, defeated Holy Roman Empire crusaders on Vitkov Hill. A granite equestrian statue of Zizka sits at the top of the hill; at the foot is the pub U vystrelenyho oka (The Shot-Out Eye)?the name, of course, a tribute to Zizka's missing orb. The slightly scruffy venue offers weekly live rock, blues and alternative music and typical Czech pub food?that is, everything is bread crumbed and fried. Try Hermelin, a Czech version of Camembert cheese pickled in oil with garlic...
...comes to securing the supply of gas and its price. Europe last year relied upon imports for around one-third of the estimated 532 billion cu m of natural gas it used - with more than half of that piped in from Russia. And the dependence on non-E.U. supplies is expected to skyrocket in the years ahead. After a spat over gas provision between Russia and Ukraine temporarily upset Europe's gas supplies earlier this year, guaranteeing the availability and regularity of Europe's supplies became a priority. So for a firm like E.ON, already committed to keeping...
...this," grumbles Lepeule. "People are mixing up eating cooked chicken, which is entirely safe, with a highly hypothetical risk of human infection." But the bad news continues. By the end of last week, total or partial import bans on French poultry products had been issued by 43 non-E.U. countries, including Japan, the biggest non-European importer of French foie gras. "There's no health justification for these bans, and the government's working to get them lifted or at least limited to certain regions and products," says Vincent Truelle, co-director of an association of foie gras producers...