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The Israeli government is planning to cut the number of foreign cooks working in the country, especially in Asian restaurants. The move has angered many Asian chefs so on Tuesday they planned a day of political protest: They stopped serving egg rolls.

The Eye

Information doesn't fade the way it used to. Records once forgotten in long-lost files are now searchable online — perhaps forever. Some computer researchers are looking for ways to give data a life span. But others think we should adapt to a new reality of data that will never die.

Rob and Lizette Greco are doing their best to raise their children artfully, outside the educational establishment, and with a small environmental footprint.

Culture Lust contributor Randy Dotinga explores the San Diego of 1894 through an old guidebook. He discovers there were more newspapers and a "perfect" sewer system.

Between Sarah Palin's half-million Twitter followers and President Obama holding a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, there's no denying that new media will have a huge impact on the 2012 presidential election — and not necessarily in the ways you would expect.

Now is not the time to pull back on military and foreign engagement, according to former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy. In Foreign Affairs, she argues that strategic military deployments abroad, a policy of "forward engagement," help preserve the United States' standing in the world.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting in Thailand with foreign ministers from the ASEAN alliance. The 10-nation group includes longtime friends, former enemies and some very complex relationships.

Everything, especially the news, is moving faster and faster. At this increasingly accelerated pace, is it inevitable that noteworthy events will rush lickety-split into each other, overwhelming us? Or will we just tune it all out?

The new phone, which has voice assistance, longer battery life and a better camera, will be launched on Oct. 14. Many of Apple's fans who had been looking forward to seeing a completely new device — the iPhone 5 — were disappointed by what many saw as an incremental improvement.