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...receiving the $A100 a fortnight salary, but thousands of Nauruans who work for state-owned enterprises haven't been paid for months. Adeang constantly has to explain to people queueing at his office why the government can't give them the $A30 they need for a bag of rice. "There are so many expectations on us to come up with some solutions." Money is not the only problem: most food is imported, and last week Adeang learnt that the cargo ship due to arrive this week with supplies of flour, rice and sugar has decided to skip the island because...
...have the Chinese, or at least their distant ancestors, to thank for cocktails. According to a report released last week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., residents of the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province were raising toasts with fruit wines and rice spirits in 7000 B.C.?usurping Iran's first place in the tipple timeline by at least a thousand years...
...Patrick E. McGovern, an expert at the University of Pennsylvania on the history of fermented beverages, identified traces of the brews on shards of pottery excavated from Jiahu in the 1980s. As did the ancients in other parts of the world, the Chinese probably concocted the drinks, using rice, hawthorn fruits, wild grapes and honey, for religious libations. According to Zhang Juzhong, an archeologist at the University of Science and Technology of China, who discovered the shards, Jiahu's residents?who also made the world's earliest known musical instruments?"probably drank the wine to numb their minds...
Goyer is quick to point out that the heart of the Blade films is the story of vampires. From the first film it has been cleat that Goyer’s creations were not the same brooding troubled bloodsuckers found in Anne Rice novels or standard Dracula stories...
...soups become a little redundant, head for a Central Square coffee shop with a funky rep. The 1369 Coffee House has the best lattes in Cambridge, but it’s the homemade soup menu that puts this place on the map. The weekly rotation includes chicken and rice, Mexican tomato lime and a spinach, garlic and chick pea soup made hearty with potatoes. After lunch, the coffee shop’s flavored hot chocolate and latte options turn it into a prime late afternoon date stop or a cozy post-dinner option. The Almond Joy hot chocolate...