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In 2001, the battle of the coffee machines came to Lygon Street in Melbourne. The old masters of the Mediterranean who brought their coffee-making skills to Melbourne as post-war migrants were facing a new enemy: Starbucks. Lygon Street is sacred ground for caffeinistas: it boasts a large student population, a bloody history with a spate of gangland murders, and has the highest concentration of pasta and density of latte fumes per square kilometre. In short – it's unique. Not the place for cookie-cutter American chains, complained the old guard….The Age reported: "although the list of the stores to be closed has not been released, it is believed the controversial Starbucks shop in Lygon Street, Carlton, is among them."
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Former US President Jimmy Carter has said the crisis in Zimbabwe is "far worse" than he had imagined….The country's basic structure was "broken down", he said, pointing to the cholera epidemic that has swept Zimbabwe, killing at least 300 people and affecting some 6,000.
Posted by: amygdala | November 26, 2008
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