| Michelin guide's Tokyo edition drawing mixed reviews
Michelin says it sells about one million guides a year worldwide, of which a growing proportion has been outside Europe. Michelin took its first step abroad two years ago with a guide to New York and followed quickly with versions for Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now, Michelin is looking for success in Tokyo before possibly venturing into other Asian cities to tap some of the world's wealthiest consumers. Michelin said it chose Tokyo because it was the largest and one of the most sophisticated restaurant markets in the world. The Tokyo metropolitan area, with some 30 million residents, has roughly 160,000 restaurants, versus about 25,000 in greater New York and 13,000 in Paris, according to Michelin. Michelin awarded 191 stars to 150 restaurants in Tokyo, most of them serving either French or Japanese cuisine.
College projects are key focus of House borrowing plan
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Guantanamo Britons could now face control orders
Civil liberties groups were outraged yesterday at suggestions that three British residents soon to be released from Guantanamo Bay will be subjected to control orders. Jordanian Jamil el-Banna, Libyan-born Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur are expected to return to Britain within weeks after lobbying by the Foreign Office. 'These men have received nothing in the way of justice,' said Zachary Katznelson, a lawyer for the three. 'It's about time they were returned to their families.' The Home Office confirmed yesterday that it was not ruling out imposing control orders on the three. It is also believed that MI5 will be ordered to monitor them as part of the deal negotiated with the US to secure their release. 'These people have been held for years,' said Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty.
Single women buying homes more frequently
Only 29 per cent of poll respondents cited marriage as a potential reason to sell their home, with trading up to a better home being the most popular answer at 50 per cent. So just what influence is this influx of women having on the market? An increasing demand for downtown condominium units for one thing, Mr. Soper said. Real estate agents are also having to fine tune their training to accommodate better prepared and more demanding female buyers, he added. Women are also becoming more likely to tackle 'fixer-uppers,' leading to new marketing efforts by renovation centres including The Home Depot and RONA, and tool companies such as Fixit Chicks and Tomboy Tools, Mr. Soper said. .
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911 tapes released in Omaha mall shooting
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - For almost 30 harrowing minutes, Jodi Longmeyer recounted to a 911 dispatcher what she could see and hear of a teenage gunman's deadly rage in a mall department store - and then broke down, she said Friday. As she told the dispatcher she could see Robert A. Hawkins' body lying next to a gun, her voice cracked, and she began to cry - a mixture of sadness and relief that the crisis was over. Nine people, including the gunman, were dead. "I had seen more than I wanted to see," Longmeyer told NBC's "Today" show Friday, describing the call. Longmeyer, who is a human resources manager at Von Maur, agonized with the operator while barricaded in an employee locker room at the store. Tapes of her 911 call were released Thursday, a day after the tragedy unfolded.
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