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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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Mr. Wolen’s dishes are almost too impressive for a neighborhood spot like Boka, which recently turned 20 years old. The tables are spaced such that you dine on a private island, only vaguely aware of your neighbors and occasionally visited by installments from Mr. Duffy’s menu. The best way to describe Lula Cafe?

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

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Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. We saw pink fish, gleaming airplanes and chile peppers. Toddlers crawled around in the shadow of Mr. Mahama’s installations. We zipped over to SCCA first, a soaring, open space.

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Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. vehicle-to-grid technologies that exploit the installed base of EV batteries. Some of these materials are highly concentrated in a few countries.