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...soup, marble potatoes, wild copper river salmon, red kuri squash and rice, bean ragout, Swiss chard custard, garlic-chanterelle emulsion, young greens and herb salad, heirloom tomatoes, dry aged cheese blossom and 25-year-old sherry dressing. Followed by mango and banner lotus, litchis and raspberry sauce, "a majestic tiger's delight," honey almond squares and chocolate coconut bars. It's not Indian takeout, but there are strong hints of the guest's own national cuisine...
Besides their outer toughness and the sister stuff, their appeal lies in the fact that they're the newly admitted blacks in the country club--much like Tiger Woods in golf--and they're handily beating the white folks. Their presence has expanded the tennis fan base. Blacks are now more than twice as likely to identify themselves as avid tennis fans as whites...
Surely our hunter-gatherer ancestors played games: "Race you to that carcass," perhaps, or "I'm a better spear thrower than you." The winner ate; the loser was tiger bait. Our Darwinian need for competition, short of war, ultimately diverted to sport. The Greeks stopped battles for their Olympics; the Romans hailed their gladiators; they also played a version of soccer. Ancient sportswriters recorded...
...trip, the 1.5 million-hectare Sanchahe Nature Reserve, 48 km north of Jinghong, offers tree houses in the forest canopy for around $25 a night. Take a guide and venture deep into the forest to try to see the wild elephants?and even, it's rumored, the odd tiger?that still live in the park. Here, too, strangely shaped trees abound. As before, however, games of banyan make-believe are recommended only for the severely suggestible...
...from the "International Committee for Art and Peace." It said the oil painting, valued at $1 million, would not be returned until Israel and the Palestinians make peace. Museum officials are taking the demand seriously. If only Israel and the Palestinians would. SRI LANKA Tamils Up the Odds Tamil Tiger separatists launched a wave of attacks on government property and security forces in a marked upsurge of hostilities. Rebels overran a police station in the island's southeast, leaving 17 police dead in several hours of fighting, while an attack on the front lines in the northeast killed seven soldiers...