Those hankering for excellent western food and a glimpse of Manila's long-lunching business-types should head to Apartment 1B on Lafayette Square.

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The transfer of fried chicken from Egypt to Gaza took three hours, not exactly fast food, but good enough for a territory where there are no Western fast-food franchises, according to the Monitor report.

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But the food business is inherently tougher in a mature market such as western Europe.

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Worsening shortages of food and medicine in both eastern and western Libya mean that a conflict prolonged and intensified by outside intervention could create a nationwide humanitarian disaster, whose effects will spill over into those countries that may have the best chance of a successful political transition to more representative government.

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FoodHub is a online directory and marketplace that makes it easy and efficient for wholesale food buyers and sellers in the Western US to research, connect, and do business.

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"These guys know I drink Richards all the time, " he says of the clerks at MW Food and Liquors, which does a thriving business with down-and-outers at the corner of Western and Milwaukee in Chicago.

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