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...Many wine writers have pronounced too generally on wine and Asian food. Lee's detailed advice is therefore very welcome. Now if only they could get rid of that page 10 picture of her, clad in a flimsy lilac number, leaning on a pillar and looking for all the world like a jobbing actress in a karaoke clip...
...Medellín. One recent morning, students waved white flags calling for peace - even as they mourned a 13-year-old classmate killed by a stray bullet just days before. In the afternoon, police captured 21 alleged criminal gang members who had slipped back into the paramilitary drug world after pledging to give it up. By night, around 10:30 p.m., police were hauling a dead body into their "necro-mobile" - a truck that collects bodies - and remarking how light a night it had been so far. It was only the second murder of the night...
Medellín has always had trouble living down its reputation. In the 1980s and '90s it was one of the most dangerous cities in the world - first as the headquarters of Pablo Escobar's cocaine cartel and then as the playground of right-wing paramilitary groups. But Medellín's murder rate dropped steadily after paramilitary fighters started putting down their arms in 2003 as part of a peace agreement with the government - and the city, one of the most dynamic industrial centers of Colombia, slowly re-established itself as a metropolis to reckon with. (See pictures from...
...conditions are ripe to negotiate a more permanent peace. But the green light the government in Bogotá had granted the Notables to hold talks wasn't renewed after Feb. 12, stoking fears that bullets will fly again. (From TIME's archive: See when Medellín was the world's most dangerous city...
...anti-smoking group, however, disagrees. "The first cigarette is often viewed as a rite of passage toward the adult world and an emancipation," NSR says in a statement on its Web page, noting that while smoking has declined among most age groups, it has risen to 40% of 12-to-25-year-olds. "The campaign seeks to reverse that impression and make people aware that smoking isn't a defiance of authority, but instead a sign of submission and naiveté - a behavioral, psychological and physical submission to an addictive drug that will control their acts, dirty their bodies...