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...progressives who savor Chicago's pizza as well as its beef sandwiches and chicken Vesuvio and scads of old-school offerings across the country, Jane and Michael Stern's 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late refers not to a diminishing American landscape but to the limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans. It's a bucket list of restaurants serving local, often obscure dishes, ranked cheerily from best to almost best. The Sterns' nation is one with at least a few places still serving the Kentucky burgoo (thick stew) Kurlansky dug up in those...
...work of scores of volunteers on the ground in the earthquake zone. They have been collecting names, ages and other details of the dead students and relaying them to the courtyard offices in a Beijing suburb where Ai and a staff of 15 work. "I think the government number is incomplete at best," Ai said from his Beijing offices. His staff has come up with a separate number - 5,205 - which he estimates accounts for about 80% of the actual student death toll. "It only reaffirms our disbelief in the official numbers ... I only feel lucky that we'd started...
...firsthand the suffering of its victims and particularly of those who had lost children. He began to write extensively about the issue on his blog - already one of the country's most popular - and soon found readers volunteering to help him in an attempt to record the exact number of students who had been killed. It's a project Ai says he will continue until "we find the last name, or I am dead." The way things are going, it's most likely to be the latter. Even if Ai does finally feel satisfied that every single name has been...
...stubborn stance is already having an influence far beyond the narrow issue of the number of dead students. As one 27-year-old volunteer put it, Ai has become a symbol for Chinese concerned about the state of society and its future course. "He makes me realize that it's possible to live as an individual in China," says the native of Liaoning province, who asked for anonymity. "I think the reason why the government is not functioning is because most people have automatically given up their own rights. The role of individuals is to stand up for our basic...
...shrinking war zone in northern Sri Lanka told the Associated Press that 378 civilians had been killed and 1,100 injured due to heavy fire within the area demarcated as a no-fire zone by the government. The death toll kept rising as the day wore on. "Seeing the number of wounded and from what the people tell me, I estimate the death toll to be around 1,000," said Dr V Shanmugaraja. Early in the morning on May 12, the same hospital, located in the village of Mullivaikal, was hit again, and some of those injured in the weekend...