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Western wonders: A traveler's guide to Scotland’s best whisky region

Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:01 PM PST

Rugged places call for great drink -- that's why the best whisky in Scotland are made in the western part of the country

Mark Buckton, for CNN

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For whisky lovers, Scotland is about the Highlands and the Lowlands, the Isles and Speyside.

Some fall in love with the tastes generated by a certain area, the result of the combination of peat, grain, water and other materials used in production.

For this global traveler, though, with close on a quarter of a century of sampling some of the very best malts in Scotland, some great Irish whiskey, and in more recent years some decent Japanese offerings, the west of Scotland runs second to none in the variety, tastes and types of drink.

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Here's a good one: Asia is comedy's next frontier

Posted: 29 Jan 2013 01:55 PM PST

Once public taboo, jokes about sex, bribery and political persecution are helping build a thriving stand-up scene

Janet Manley

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In a café in Bangalore, a comedian leads off with a joke about Kingfisher Airlines stewardesses, and gets mild titters from the audience.

"The men are smiling," he teases.

The comic, Sanjay Manaktala, then tells a story about dressing up as a police officer to play out a sexy fantasy with an Indian girlfriend: "I told her 'You've been a naughty girl.' She said, 'Oh my god! Here's a hundred bucks.'"

This time, the crowd erupts into a roar, the bribery reference, a common problem within India's police force, hitting its mark.