Flemish enthusiasts at Steam Center Maldegem, a heritage center in northern Belgium, recently spent a cold day cutting spare boiler screws for their stable, which includes a Polish-built steam engine, the "General Maczek, " named for the Polish general who helped liberate Belgium in World War II.

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Europe's food retailers depend on a complex network of brokers, cold stores and meat-cutting plants around the continent from which to source the ingredients wherever they are cheapest, says the BBC's Christian Fraser, in Paris.

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In the hustle to make sense of the conflicting messages from Virginia and New Jersey, campaign consultants may conclude that the promise of tax cuts does seduce voters, while a record of tax-cutting leaves them cold.

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Though he's known for upgrading traditional Southern cuisine with cutting-edge techniques (he uses liquid nitrogen in cold-milling corn for grits), Mr. Brock believes cooking simply is just as challenging as cooking with modern gadgets.

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Bush says he's ready to cast off outdated Cold War strategies, and have the United States lead by example in cutting its nuclear arsenal.

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Cutting the size of the nuclear arsenal to a small fraction of its Cold War size and focusing on terrorists rather than state-based threats may seem sensible in the present environment, but the decisions the administration is making will have consequences for decades after it leaves office.

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Despite recent cold weather that has slowed down removal of the final stretch of spoil from the Imberhorne cutting, and the laying of track and cabling, Mr Watts is confident the stretch will be completed in time.

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