Iran agrees to basic nuclear deal with Russia
The News Review:
- Iran agrees to basic nuclear deal with Russia
- Whoever wins, there will still be a flavour of France
- Anita Roddick: The grapefruit gladiator
- Invest in science, math and engineering
- Hadden typifies magic touch of all good coaches
- Scotland striker is ready to swap Edinburgh for Moscow
Iran agrees to basic nuclear deal with Russia
Independent Online – Feb 26, 2006
It was unclear what this basic agreement involved and both Russian and Iranian officials identified serious obstacles to a full deal. These principally concerned a suspension of Tehran’s home-grown uranium enrichment work, the main demand of Western powers who are threatening to press for UN sanctions. ‘Their idea of accepting the Russian proposal is to be able to enrich in Russia and Iran’The original Russian proposal had been for Iran’s uranium to be enriched in Russia to defuse suspicions that Iran might divert some nuclear fuel into a weapons programme. However, Iran has always insisted upon its right to enrich the uranium it mines in its central desert on its own soil, and it was unclear how the original Russian proposal could be tailored to please Tehran. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia,” Iranian nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh told reporters in the Iranian port town of Bushehr.
Whoever wins, there will still be a flavour of France
Guardian Unlimited – Feb 26, 2006
Now, anybody looking at the list of dishes put forward for the BBC’s forthcoming Great British Menu will quickly see that the smuggling days are long gone. Thanks to a dedicated band of skilled producers, this country is awash with superb produce: there’s terrific lamb from the hills of south west England or the salt marshes of the north; there are Welsh black beef, Kentish apples and the best asparagus in the world. Look a little more closely at those menus, however, and it soon becomes clear that there is still something being sneaked into the British kitchen from across the water. It’s there in the Welsh menu of shellfish cooked with white wine and cream or the black beef with a red wine sauce. It’s there in John Burton Race’s thyme jus, Galton Blackiston’s quince tarte tatin and Gary Rhodes’s dish of turbot and oysters in a sauce made with a champenoise-style wine from Kent. It may be called The Great British Menu but, it seems, France has already won hands down… Let’s make no mistake. There is nothing wrong with this sort of competition and the quality of the chefs taking part and of those judging them is testament to the depth and breadth of food knowledge in Britain. But it serves nobody if we pretend that what’s being fought over here is a robust and venerable British culinary tradition which is entirely home-grown or anything like it. Since the early 19th century when the lardy Prince Regent hired Antonin Careme, the celebrity chef of his day, to cook 100 dish dinners for him, Britain’s cooks have been bending the knee to their colleagues across the Channel – and continue to do so. Look at the CVs of those taking part and what you will see is a set of cooks trained in the traditions of the French kitchen codified by the great Auguste Escoffier; cooks who happen now to be turning their hands to a set of dishes involving great home- grown ingredients but with, at best, only a tenuous grasp on their locality. This is not their fault. Despite a lot of recent effort, Britain’s indigenous culinary tradition still has feeble roots.
Anita Roddick: The grapefruit gladiator
The Independent – Independent – Feb 26, 2006
Home is a reproduction Georgian-style house in the Sussex countryside near to where she grew up. She has designed the bedrooms in bordello, Chinese, Shaker, African and Caribbean themes. There is also a vineyard in the back garden which produces home grown pinot noir. But one wonders how comfortable she is to live with. Not only is she “frightened of leisure”, she has three rules in the kitchen – no bottled water, no wasted food and no going to bed without clearing up. The four sinks enable her guests to help wash up. She says, however, that she doesn’t really need friends.
Invest in science, math and engineering
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Feb 26, 2006
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Historically, people from outside the United States have supplemented home-grown talent. Student applications from abroad, however, have been slipping, and the gap has narrowed between career opportunities here and those elsewhere. The need is clear to graduate more engineers, scientists and mathematicians. Perhaps most critically, we need a larger pool of teachers who have mastered their scientific and mathematical subject areas by graduating with a major in their substantive field to better prepare high school students and wean ourselves off extraordinary measures we must take now. These measures will amount to a motivational effort whose centerpiece, I believe, must be a compelling offer: a $10,000 federal income tax credit for those completing a degree in engineering, engineering technology, computer and information sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, bio-medical sciences, communications technologies, or chemistry.
Hadden typifies magic touch of all good coaches
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 27, 2006
Jewell’s success with Wigan has been a football fairy story and no one can doubt that their driven manager, helped by an unusually supportive chairman in Dave Whelan, has held the magic wand. Even though they were heavily beaten by Manchester United in the Carling Cup final, Wigan remain on the upside of the Premiership table and will surely survive the harshness of winter. There are other home-grown managers, such as Sam Allardyce of Bolton and Alan Curbishley of Charlton, who have demonstrated that professional nous and unshowy commitment can keep them ahead of clubs with many times their resources. There was a revealing and embarrassing contrast between the whinging Jose Mourinho and the dignified Frank Rijkaard, manager of Barcelona, after the first leg of their Champions League tie at Stamford Bridge. I cling to the belief that there is something immoral about the money on which the club is built, and that this is reflected in the club’s conduct on and off the field.
Scotland striker is ready to swap Edinburgh for Moscow
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 27, 2006
“There was a period when we had a real influx of foreigners, but ultimately we found that wasn’t going to be successful and now we’ve gone back to producing our own players. Maybe we should have been doing that all along. When Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen and Dundee United had their European successes in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, it was done with home-grown talent. “Hearts defender Steven Pressley, who has a virus, has withdrawn from the squad to face the Swiss, and midfielder Paul Hartley also misses out, ostensibly with an ankle injury. Jakob Kuhn’s players, unlike the Scots, have qualified for this sum-mer’s World Cup finals in Germany. Wolves striker Kenny Miller, who will join Celtic at the end of this season, said: “Apart from our first-half display against Belarus, we’ve shown progress in every game since Walter replaced Berti Vogts and it’s important that we keep that momentum going. “• Hopes of a first all-Edinburgh Scottish Cup final since 1896 were dashed when Hearts and Hibernian were paired in yesterday’s semi-final draw.