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...fire or flood, it's the mud.' CHRISTINA LILLENTHAL, California's interagency fire spokeswoman, on the violent thunderstorms that have triggered mud slides in the disaster-ravaged state...
...performance art, painting, sculpting, rock 'n' roll, experimental music, film, poetry and literature. Commercially, where once it conceded all to Shanghai, China's longtime economic powerhouse, Beijing is now at the forefront of a wave of entrepreneurship in telecoms, media, software and the Web. Socially too, Beijing is on fire, with new clubs, bars and restaurants opening every day. The city, which can still mark the year its first privately owned restaurant opened (1980), now boasts some 20,000 dining establishments, whose fare ranges from increasingly refined cooking from all corners of China to haute cuisine from world-renowned chefs...
...food industry has long been under fire for advertising directly to children. They're an irresistibly lucrative target - children under 12 are estimated to spend more than $25 billion a year themselves, and may influence another $200 billion that is spent. But there's no doubt that some of that spending contributes directly to childhood obesity - 32% of American youngsters are overweight, and 50% of the calories kids under 18 eat come from fat or added sugars. Public-interest groups and Congress have urged companies to stop targeting ads to children, and many, including McDonald's, General Mills and Kraft...
...California statute also lets drivers use a standard handheld cell phone to make an emergency call. The law lists emergency calls as those to a law enforcement agency, medical provider, fire department or other emergency services agency. But some motorists pulled over by the highway patrol have their own notions of what constitutes an emergency...
...fated to die were dead already, and he'd be of little help to the rest. An hour later, waiting for a client at a hotel across the street from the Iranian embassy, he says he saw a car get too close to an armored ISAF convoy and take fire from the roof-mounted turrets. "If you go behind car of ISAF, they shoot you and you're dead," says Aimal. "This is my country! This is shame...