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...remains unauthorized almost everywhere else in France. It's dealing with scared consumers that is tricky. Chicken sales in France were down by 20% at the end of February, says André Lepeule, delegate general of the Federation of Poultry Industries, and some retailers say sales have dipped by twice that. No matter how often politicians publicly eat coq au vin or suprême de volaille, the French are treating chicken as if it glowed in the dark. "I froze two chickens a few weeks before the disease came to France, but once they are done that...
Sahar Ashour Nema has been visited twice by Iraq's sectarian demons. Two years ago, her husband, a Shi'ite laborer, was murdered by Sunni militants, who decapitated him, then hacked his body to pieces and set ablaze his small mobile home in western Baghdad. Before taking her children with her to live in her father's home in nearby al-Haswa, Nema returned one last time to their old neighborhood--just long enough to collect her husband's charred body parts in a plastic bag so he could have a decent burial. Her Sunni neighbors were impassive. "Nobody offered...
...Sunni families being forced out of al-Shulla by the influx of Shi'ites. "I don't care if the house we get here is smaller than the one we left," Nema says. The only certainty: she will never return to her old home. To be twice a victim of Iraq's sectarian hatreds is quite enough...
...used to be that hit shows aired once or twice on a TV network, then had an afterlife in seemingly endless reruns on local stations or down-the-dial cable outfits. Today, however, series such as Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Office are treated to multiformat distribution: they are sold as downloads or video-on- demand, cut and clipped for cell phones and marketed via online video blogs or audio podcasts, sometimes hours after they air on television. Or sometimes before. Late last month, NBC debuted another new Wolf drama, Conviction, on Apple's iTunes weeks before its network premiere...
...case of Panlong, villagers say they twice sent representatives to Beijing hoping someone would listen to their land-dispute issue, but no one did. In January, after months of fruitless petitioning of various levels of government, Panlong residents decided to stage a protest near their seized land. A similar effort in nearby Dongzhou village a month before had ended with paramilitary police killing at least six locals. But people in Panlong felt they had no other choice. The protest stayed peaceful for several days, until armed men with electric truncheons descended on the crowd and started beating everyone from young...