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gleans at 6:50 PM MT, 07/04

Oasis amidst war, Afghan valley looks to tourism

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan - There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center. 

 

Children who survive plane crashes  <== interesting

 

Spy's cover blown - on Facebook

 

Honduras: the Graham Greene coup

 

Britain 74th happiest country

 

Costa Rica Tops 'Green and Happy' List; US 114th - World News ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 2:00 PM MT, 07/04

 GIN WISDOM

 

 Taliban assault
UK troops battle to turn the tide in key Afghan areas

 

 Made for you
Things making life in US convenient and entertaining

 

A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post

By DAVID CARR

Katharine Weymouth decided to sell legitimacy, with her paper’s editorial integrity thrown in as a parting gift.

 

For Australian Winemakers, More Turns Out to Be Less

By MERAIAH FOLEY

Australian winemakers are selling more wine but making less money per bottle.

 

Alive and Evolving: the Paris Bistro

By MARK BITTMAN

Julien Goldstein for The New York Times

Les Papilles, the provisions and wine shop and bistro in the Fifth Arrondissement.

Offering reliable and affordable food, the bistro choices are better than they have been in years.

• Slide Show: The Affordable Paris Bistro
• Related: As a Meal Tax Shrinks, Restaurants Hope to Gain

 

 

Japanese Baseball: Root, Root, Root and Buy Me Some Eel

By INGRID K. WILLIAMS

Attending a baseball game provides an illuminating peek into Japanese culture and an opportunity to taste some culinary curiosities.

Slide Show: Fanatic for Baseball in Japan

 

 

Tasting Slovenian Cuisine Right at the Source

By HANNAH WALLACE

The Karst, in the country’s southwest region, is known for its gastronomic heritage and family farms that welcome travelers.

Slide Show: On the Family Farm in Slovenia

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 6:15 AM MT, 07/04

The hundred most influential books since the war TLS

 

The Wolfram search engine will allow people to make use of science on a daily basis, just as Google has made billions of people reference librarians... more»

 

The old is new again at Saturday Evening Post

 

Texas brewer, once near defeat, shines again

 

Americans in the mood to celebrate July 4th

 

 

lagniappe

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern ~ Keats

 

Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Than mine host's Canary wine?
Or are fruits of Paradise
Sweeter than those dainty pies
Of venison? O generous food!
Drest as though bold Robin Hood
Would, with his maid Marian,
Sup and bowse from horn and can.

I have heard that on a day
Mine host's sign-board flew away,
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story
Said he saw you in your glory,
Underneath a new old sign
Sipping beverage divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.

Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 5:10 PM MT, 07/03

MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis

 

Blair's black eye at awards event
Tony Blair sported a faint black eye as he accepted an award earlier, after an a "gym-related accident".

 

MP's cuckold sign shocks Portugal
Portugal's economy minister quits after making a rude cuckold gesture at an opposition MP in parliament.

 

 

Around the horn
So what exactly does the cuckold sign mean?

 

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Danger zone
BBC visits Somalia's radical guerrillas al-Shabab

 

A sanctuary threatened The BBC's Gary Duffy assesses the future the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the World's largest freshwater wetlands.

 

Calif. students get X-rated version of class DVD

 

 

Blonde who inspired Roddick to victory

 

Polo: you don’t have to be posh

The sport is not just for princes — and it’s looking for new blood. Our correspondent tries out a chukka

 

British make gains in Afghan flashpoint: military

AFP - ‎KABUL (AFP) — British forces said Friday they had successfully carried out one of their "most strategically significant" operations in the Afghan province ...

Video: US Marines capture Afghan district in major anti-Taliban offensive France 24

US Marines Encounter Tough Resistance in Afghanistan Offensive Washington Post

Senior British commander killed in Afghanistan PRESS TV

Bloomberg - The Associated Press

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gleans at 12:20 PM MT, 07/03

Federer eases into seventh final

 

Federer Beats Haas to Reach 7th Wimbledon Final

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Roger Federer victory over Tommy Haas puts him within one win of a record 15th Grand Slam title.

 

 

Federer, Roddick to meet in third Wimbledon final

Slideshow: Wimbledon

 

New dinosaurs found in Australia

Three new dinosaur species are found in Queensland, Australia, and named after the Outback song Waltzing Matilda.

 

36 Hours in Madison, Wis.

 

A New Spin Cycle for the Common Dip 

By MARK BITTMAN

 

Evan Sung for The New York Times

If you substitute “thick purée” for “dip,” the options are limitless — like this one, made from peas, mint and Parmesan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 8:20 AM MT, 07/03

Our very own Philosopher-in-Chief. It’s been a long time, but maybe Americans are entitled to one. Carlin Romano on Barack Obama... more» 

 

Forty years ago, when men walked on the Moon and drove their buggies over the lunar landscape, we all lived on a different earth... more» 

 

When Was the 4th of July First Celebrated? 

 

US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan towns

 

Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard 

 

 

World markets slide on grim US jobs report

 

Oil hovers above $66 after weak jobs data  

 

Grim U.S. jobless numbers damp economic recovery hopes

By Don Lee  The loss of 467,000 jobs in June is far more than expected, and reverses a trend in which the monthly losses had been steadily shrinking from a January peak.

 

What to wear to Henley

 

Bruschetta of haricot beans, lemon and chilli

Comfort food gets a facelift – Xanthe Clay shows how to give beans on toast an Italian twist.

 

King of the road

Ahead of Independence Day, Jon Blair looks back on a quintessentially American holiday - a camper-van trip to a country music festival.

USA: the best summer events and festivals

 

 

Sign language

Another collection of strange signs and bizarre translations.

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 8:40 PM MT, 07/02

Great British walks

In the first part of a three-part series, Christopher Middleton selects the finest pub trails in Britain.

 

BBQ diplomacy Unlikely middleman between North Korea and the US

Space ambitions US moonwalker Buzz Aldrin looks to new frontiers

 

Celebrating the Sounds of Appalachian Strings

By NICK KAYE

Russell Kaye for The New York Times

At the Ole Time Fiddler’s and Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C., jam sessions seem to be natural phenomena.  For 85 years, strummers, pickers and fiddlers have met in the North Carolina hills on a spring weekend to play homage to old-time music.

Audio Slide Show: Ole Music, New Masters

North Carolina Travel Guide »

Where to Go in North Carolina.

 

Practical Travel

 

Twitter Comes to the Rescue

By MICHELLE HIGGINS

From bad airplane seats to poor room service, customers are getting surprisingly fast responses to their tweets.

Post a Comment

 

US jobless rate soars to 26-year high

467,000 Americans lost jobs in June, far worse than analysts expected, as recession grips US economy

 

Tweet revenge: literary feuds go short and sharp

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 3:20 PM MT, 07/02

The quantum life - physicsworld.com Jul 1, 2009 ... Organic life could have started as the slow-but-reliable “hard-disk” of Q-life. Because of its greater versatility and toughness, ...

 

Dispatch

Counterinsurgency Lessons

by Robert D. Kaplan

Why the defeat of the Tamil Tigers may not be instructive for the U.S.
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As industry recovers, Mac growth beating PCs

Apple's Mac shipments were up 25 percent in May, compared to only 1 percent growth for the rest of the PC industry, according to an analyst report.  Read full story

 

Another All-Williams Final at Wimbledon

 

U.S. Confirms Investigation of Google Books Deal

 

UK Lt Colonel dies in Afghanistan The highest ranking Army officer to be killed since the Falklands War is one of the two latest casualties in Afghanistan. Go Figure Can a statistics website really be exciting? Yes it can Free future Wired magazine's editor talks open software

 

Swine flu 'cannot be contained'

The rising numbers of swine flu cases mean trying to contain the virus is no longer an option, ministers say.

 

Look who's talking Three years of video surveillance begins to unlock the mysteries of how we learn to talk Learning to say 'ball'

 

 

First byte
The Californian origins of home computing

 

The time is now
Building for a wet but secure future in Bangladesh

 

Two centuries on, code that stumped Jefferson cracked‎ -

The cipher--sent to Jefferson in 1801 by mathematician Robert Patterson as an example of the perfect code--piqued the interest of cryptologist Lawren ...

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 6:15 AM MT, 07/02

US Marines launch major offensive in Afghanistan

NAWA, Afghanistan – Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. Full Story »

• Video: U.S. begins Taliban offensive Reuters
• Related: US: American soldier captured in Afghanistan AP

Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution

BANGKOK, Thailand - Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.

 

 

Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies

 

New materials taking the `lug' out of luggage

 

 

Top internet radio stations

We look at the internet radio revolution and pick the best stations.

 

Technologies that track you

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 3:35 PM MT, 07/01

The perils of matching food and wine

Is drinking red wine with fish a social faux pas or are such rules just made to be broken, asks Jonathan Ray.

 

Murray on threshold of history

Only American Andy Roddick stands between the boy from Dunblane and a place in the Wimbledon final.

 

Roddick triumphs in slugfest

Court No 1 thrilled as Lleyton Hewitt is subdued by Andy Roddick in clash of 'old married dudes' to set up Andy Murray semi-final.

 

Ant mega-colony takes over world

 

Workplaces set to get 'smarter'

 

Gaga goo goo
Video surveillance offers insight into baby babble

 

Ariane lofts biggest 'space bird'

TerreStar-1, the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite, is put into orbit.

 

Herschel captures galaxy image