Word: except
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...casual cook will be intrigued by The Foods of Vietnam (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $35), especially now that good Vietnamese restaurants have spread across the country. But Nicole Routhier's handsome book presents a difficulty with ingredients, which are hard to come by except in coastal urban areas...
...idea of a global shortage seems incredible when 70% of the earth's surface is covered by H2O. But 98% of that water is salty, making it unusable for drinking or agriculture. Desalinization is technically feasible, but it is far too expensive to use anywhere except in an ultra-rich, sparsely populated country like Saudi Arabia. Other options, like towing icebergs from the poles, are also beyond the means of poor nations...
...Americans, 3,000 Britons and 3,000 Turks. In Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart for Jordan. But there was no indication of when any others would be permitted to leave...
...Iraqi dictator, however, will find his position at home sorely tested as economic sanctions start to bite. The U.N. measures bar all member states from buying anything from or selling anything to either Iraq or Kuwait, except on humanitarian grounds. Separately, the E.C., the U.S. and Japan have frozen Kuwait's foreign assets, some $100 billion worldwide, to keep them out of Saddam's clutches...
...thinkers who argue that the mavericks are undeserving of the attention they receive. Says Martin Kilson, Harvard's first black tenured professor: "Steele's stuff is simpleminded, one-dimensional psychological reductionism. It's slick sophistry." Declares Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "These people have nothing to offer except a conservative viewpoint in a black skin...