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...around the neighborhood, piously reincarnated with austere hairstyles and headscarves. I recognized one of the girls at the local square, as we stood in a pre-iftar [the Ramadan evening meal] line for halim, and asked her if the was actually observant, or just happened to like the seasonal wheat and turkey stew. "Oh, I adore fasting!" she said, as though professing to love truffles or the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iran's Revolution Created 'Muslim Lite' | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...expects success to come easily. One of the reasons the green revolution flourished in Asia back in the 1960s and 1970s was that it focused on just a couple of crops--rice and wheat. But Africa depends on dozens of crops scattered across hundreds of different regions at different times of the year. "You're not going to develop a single crop that revolutionizes African agriculture," says Paula Bramel, a researcher who works in Tanzania for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. "This is a much more diverse place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Hope | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...change shapes, they go to heaven and back." Ngugi's early novels were built around defining moments in Kenya's history, such as the Mau Mau uprising against the British in the 1950s, during which one of his brothers was killed. But after his third novel, A Grain of Wheat, "I became increasingly disturbed that I was drawing from a people's history, their lives, blood, sweat and culture created in and by a national language, but what I was writing was encased in English," he says. "I was writing about a community, but not for a community." He changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Wizard Of Words | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...want a “healthier” burger option than you can find at Flat Patties, cross the street to b.good (24 Dunster Street). The meat is hand-packed and mostly served on whole wheat buns. For a less beefy option, sample the BBQ chicken sandwich...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Many Tastes of The Square | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

Bread Children like white bread. Healthier Choice: Whole-grain bread. Make sure that whole wheat is the first ingredient. If the list starts with wheat or unbleached wheat flour, it's not whole-grain bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Pack a Lunch | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

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