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...When we move people closer to one another and their daily destinations, they become less dependent on automobiles, and energy consumption goes down. New York City residents are by far the biggest users of public transit in the U.S. But things have to be close enough together to make using a subway or bus worthwhile. Where I live in Connecticut, everything is so spread out that there's no way I could take a bus. It's much easier for me to use...
...exciting." He draws inspiration from his Ilocano and Hokkien roots to concoct playful yet sophisticated dishes that tease the palate without alienating it: succulent scallop kilawin (seviche) in chilled carrot-and-ginger soup; zesty crabmeat, pomelo and rocket salad with caramelized shallots and Ilocos vinegar ("Why does everybody always use balsamic?" he asks); glass-noodle pancit with tender short ribs, garnished with grapes, black sesame and coriander. His outstanding twist on adobo, one of the Philippines' most popular dishes, involves serving pork belly on a bed of deeply aromatic Singaporean chicken rice. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...NWFZ would be a harder sell in Israel, where the government has previously refused to discuss the issue until hostile Arab and Muslim nations recognize the Jewish state's right to exist. The new IAEA resolution that Israel nominally supported calls for the use of dialogue to achieve the end of nuclear weapons in the region, which of course can't happen as long as there are no diplomatic relations between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. (See pictures of what may be Syria's nuclear reactor...
...bitter pill Zelaya's return is for him to swallow," says Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society in New York and editor of the Americas Quarterly. "If so, both sides are probably en route to an institutional train wreck." (Read why Obama won't use the M word - military - for the coup in Honduras...
...rights activists and foreign observers alike. "I was disappointed to hear that the parade had been cancelled," Stephen Wordsworth, Britain's ambassador to Serbia, wrote in his blog on the embassy's website. "Those people who had wanted to demonstrate peacefully had lost. Those who were prepared to use all means to stop them had won." Some Serbian politicians were even more forceful in their condemnation: "The state has capitulated under threats of fascists," Zarko Korac, a parliament member from the Social Democratic Union party, was quoted as saying by the Serbian news website Pescanik...