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...gasoline would go for less than $1 a gal.) Iraq's importance in filling this role was spelled out two years ago in a little-noted energy study issued by the Council on Foreign Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University, named for the Secretary of State under President Bush's father. The report offered this snapshot: "Tight [oil] markets have increased U.S. and global vulnerability to disruption and provided adversaries undue potential influence over the price of oil. Iraq has become a key 'swing' producer, posing a difficult situation...
...lighter touch, try southwest Houston's Le Viet, which owner Tam Le opened nine months ago with a mission to make his mother's Vietnamese home cooking popular with non-Asian diners. The servers at Le Viet patiently show newcomers how to wrap rice-paper rolls around pungent shrimp paste, vermicelli and mounds of fragrant mint and cilantro, and advise which sauce goes with the fiery lemongrass tofu. "I'm young and willing to try new things," says Le, 25. "You can't serve American customers the same way as Vietnamese customers...
...staff at Miss Saigon would agree. With its bistro-style setting and fresh baguettes for banh mi (spicy grilled-pork sandwiches), the restaurant emphasizes the French influence on Vietnamese food and has won fans in the tony neighborhood near Rice University and Houston's medical center. Downtown, Mai's has a strong following for its noodle soups, chicken-coconut curry and fresh lemon soda. And it's open until 2:30 a.m. every day, a gift to restless road warriors in this early-to-bed city...
While Indika focuses on North Indian cuisine, with flatbreads and meats, South Indian food, with a greater emphasis on rice and vegetarian dishes, gets star billing at two excellent restaurants between Greenway Plaza and Harwin's wholesale district. At Udupi, the mushroom curry is a standout. At Madras Pavilion, rice takes center stage: lemon rice, coconut rice, tamarind rice--each one laced with a different blend of spices, nuts and vegetables. Both make fine masala dosa, those paper-thin stuffed crepes, but Suprabhath, a casual takeout place in Hillcroft's Little India neighborhood, is even better...
...understand how the government can build something like this without talking to us first," says Lin, who offered us a swig of the rice wine-and-beer concoction he's been guzzling to ward off SARS. "They tricked us," adds Shen Xianchang, the caretaker of the converted building. "Even when they started building the isolation wards, they didn't tell us what they were doing." Now, the damaged building is being guarded by resentful villagers. There's only one quarantined person inside, a man who visited SARS-infected Guangdong province last week but who so far has not displayed...