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...fire department began to leave, a pair of onlookers asked this reporter which establishment had been aflame. Outside New Asia, there were few signs that a fire had taken place. Traces of water remained on the sidewalk and the smell of smoke still lingered in the air, but otherwise not much had changed, at least on the outside...
...Thompson. "They're not forgetting how to eat." Nor are they forgetting how to read. One day, perhaps, Thai Street Food will become the definitive reference for Thais as well as foreigners. Where else will they learn that the best coconut cream is squeezed through muslin and that giant water bugs give fish sauce the most haunting of aromas...
...little food to share, meat was always heaped onto my section of the communal plate. The ceremony was interrupted by rolling blackouts. Like most other things in Yemen, the guests explained, electric service has worsened this year. Much of the country is increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water, oil and cash are running dry. The groom's brother Bandar, who drove me to Taiz the next day, pointed out new roads along the way - all built with foreign donations. "The government here is absent," he said. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
...capital Port-au-Prince was flattened by a massive earthquake that killed as many as 200,000 and left 1.5 million homeless. Aid groups fear that the tremor--the worst of the dozens of aftershocks that have hit Haiti since the quake--could hinder the delivery of food and water. About 4,000 additional U.S. troops have been pledged to Haiti to help deliver aid, bringing the total...
...most contentious social problems: a large colony of convicted sex offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency restrictions that leave them scant available or affordable housing. They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. Not even during a recent cold spell, when nighttime temperatures dropped into the 30s, could they move into temporary lodging...