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...Britain and Europe is that the technology involved is amateurish and the strategy ham-handed. "In a world with very efficient explosives and lots of recipes for home-made explosives available, using gas cans and nails would suggest a very modest degree of technical ability," notes one veteran French counter-terrorism official, referring to the 60 liters of gasoline, commercially-sold canisters of cooking gas, and large quantity of nails packed into the two Mercedes found by police in London before their deadly cargo could be detonated. He adds that store-bought gas cylinders used as charges packed within nails...
Smart companies like the French retailer Carrefour reach back to the farmer in his field. "We select the best suppliers and train them to our standards--which pesticides they can use, how much to use and so on," says Nadege Claudel, Carrefour's quality and food-safety manager for China. For produce sold under its in-house brand, Carrefour has replicated its European tracking system, which labels every vegetable with a number that follows it from harvest to shelf--and adds 20% to the price...
...little more than a decade ago, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
Meanwhile, friends in other places sent long e-mails about their culinary adventures in Manhattan and abroad: the French bakeries, the exotic cheeses, the alcohol...
...version of fine cuisine consisted in a second dinner. By “second dinner” I mean that one of the housemates had bought a loaf of French bread and left half of it out on the counter until it had hardened to a level where any reasonable person would throw it away. Naturally, I swooped in to keep good food from being wasted, warmed it in the oven, and proceeded to devour it with poverty’s best companion, peanut butter. This tasteless, crumbly bonus meal gave me such a sense of satisfaction that the bread?...