Beansprouts require refrigeration.

Yes, really.

The CBC's Ira Basen has a series broadcasting on CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition called Spin Cycles.

Episode One is entitled A Century of Spin. I only woke up in time for the last half, but what I heard was interesting.

The NYT did some investigating into the relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan's security agencies, and finds there is anecdotal evidence to support the notion that those agencies "are encouraging the insurgents, if not sponsoring them."

One promise that President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson, elected last year, made was to combat the problem of rape in Liberia -- something that steadily worsened during 14 years of conflict.

BBC reporter Will Ross assesses progress.

From the BBC:

Paul Greengrass is currently working on The Bourne Ultimatum

British director Paul Greengrass is to follow up his 9/11 film United 93 with a docu-drama about Iraq after the US-led invasion, according to reports.

He will film an adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, according to trade paper Variety.

Chandrasekaran was Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post from 2003-04.

Greengrass has been praised for the way United 93 dramatised the crashing of a plane in Pennsylvania on 11 September.

I've seen the major films Greengrass has done: Bloody Sunday, Omagh, The Bourne Supremacy and, of course, United 93.

I've posted before on Chandrasekaran's book.

Turkish police have arrested suspects in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who had been in trouble for "insulting Turkishness" for his writings on the Armenian genocide.