China bus bomber killed in coffee shop blast-Xinhua
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- China bus bomber killed in coffee shop blast-Xinhua
- An Application for Baristas That’s More Than Milk and Beans
- CMMENTARY: Waiting to Drink Coffee Together in Sderot or in Gaza
- A Return to Java
China bus bomber killed in coffee shop blast-Xinhua
Reuters
Li Yan was killed in Kunming on Wednesday when an ammonia bomb in his backpack unexpectedly went off as he was walking out of the bathroom of the coffee house Xinhua cited Du Min vice mayor and head of the city’s public security bureau as saying. No other people were hurt in the blast it said. Traces of the explosives and DNA samples taken from the scene matched those from two bus bombings in the city on July 21 leading police to confirm that Li was behind the earlier bombings Xinhua said. They later found ammonia explosives electric detonators bullets and a home-made gun in Li’s apartment it said adding that he had been sentenced to nine years in jail for robbery and other charges in 2001 but was released early for good behaviour. Two people died and 14 were injured in the July bus bombings which happened amid a nationwide security clampdown weeks ahead of the Beijing lympics.
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An Application for Baristas That’s More Than Milk and Beans
New York Times United States
— ne might think there is little more that can be said about coffee in this city which is after all home to four of the leading coffee magazines in the country a school that draws baristas from across the world a social-networking site for coffee professionals and the two-time Northwest regional barista champion. Skip to next paragraph.
CMMENTARY: Waiting to Drink Coffee Together in Sderot or in Gaza
HNN Huntingtonnews.net USA
I want to move freely travel travel to the West Bank London Washington and Egypt” I couldn’t help but be moved by his words when I compared his elusive dreams to the freedom of movement that I take for granted. I couldn’t help but be moved by his words since we are neighbors: Sameh lives in the Gaza Strip and I on the other side in Israel. We are neighbors who yearn for the mundane act of meeting together either in Gaza or in Israel over a cup of coffee and biscuits to talk about this and that. My kibbutz while officially on the list of the Surrounding Gaza settlements has never thankfully been hit by kassam rockets. My experiences with the “Tzeve Adom” (Red Alerts) are from my work at the Sapir College where I am on faculty. I no longer remember how many tzeve adoms there have been or how many students and faculty and staff I have hugged or tissues I have used to wipe away their tears. I have barely missed some kassam attacks like the one that knocked out the windows in the office next to mine or the one that fell near the clinic on campus when I was comforting students on the other side.
A Return to Java
Rocky Mount Telegram NC
’ ” He cringes as he often does at any reminder that he was not always the sophisticated third grader he is now. But he looks out the window interested and says “Some of this rings a bell. ” We are on our way to the Losari Coffee Plantation in central Java where we stayed seven years ago and to revisit the Borobudur Buddhist temple which dates back to the eighth century and which Indonesians call the eighth wonder of the world. The road winds through verdant rice fields and past volcanoes where the traffic and crowds (Java is the most populated island in the world with some 124 million people) are at odds with the pastoral beauty of rice harvesting. Central Java is both the agricultural center and the cultural heart of Java: the city of Yogyakarta is famous for its gamelan music its wayang kulit theater (shadow puppets that act out such tales as the Ramayana the Indian myth until the light of dawn) its silver making its intricate batiks and its universities. Two Unesco World Heritage sites remnants of an ancient Javanese kingdom are in the area: Borobudur and Prambanan a 10th-century Hindu temple that was partly destroyed in an earthquake in 2006 but has now reopened to the public. My husband John and I had spent three months in Indonesia in 2001 with our son who was then 2 and I was curious about how deep an imprint the culture had left on him.
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