The Green Zebra specialises in handmade pasta dishes, but is also open for breakfast and is the place to go if you have a hankering for classics like bacon and free-range eggs ($14) or bircher muesli ($10.50).

In the future, war will not merely be one of men and machines, it will be a war of wills and a war of nerves.

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[…] Daily the sun like a red target sank into horizons left behind them, the vendavel hung steady from the west ...