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...touch with local values. Though there are state governments, Micronesia's limited land - all 607 small islands comprise only 271 square miles in total - is mostly controlled by family clans, and setting even small patches of it aside has proved problematic in the past. In the early 1990s, the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy tried to survey land in Pohnpei for a proposed watershed-management plan. "We almost got macheted to death," says Bill Raynor, who moved to Pohnpei from California 30 years ago and helped establish the Conservancy's presence in Micronesia. "None of us wants to walk...
...left home. Figuring out how to integrate into the fast-paced, capitalist world of Seoul can take years. Although the two Koreas share a history and some cultural values, North and South Korea have been divided since the 1950-53 Korean War. Before the North's famine in the 1990s, only a privileged few with money and connections to border guards could make the crossing. ("If you pay enough, you can get anyone out," says Kang.) After decades under the strictest and most repressive totalitarian state in the world, the first defectors that arrived in the South were "always suspicious...
...South Africa for the World Cup. "The rainbow nation," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls it, has pulled out all the stops to be ready for the big event. I have a long personal connection to South Africa, having written one book about the country, and then, in the 1990s, I had the great privilege of working with Nelson Mandela on his memoirs. I'm looking forward to being in Cape Town for both the Global Forum and the World Cup, which we will cover with a special issue on global soccer. See you in the Mother City...
...attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in northern Iraq, in 1988. The massacre, which killed about 5,000 people, is believed to be the deadliest chemical attack on civilians in history. That year Majid led a campaign that killed as many as 180,000 Kurds, and in the 1990s his victims included thousands of Shi'ites rebelling against the Baathist regime. In 2003, when the U.S. military put together a deck of cards with pictures of Iraq's most wanted, Majid was depicted as the king of spades...
...even for all of that time: by the 1970s, the so-called fresh-food revolution was on, and Alice Waters was serving statement salads at her influential California restaurant Chez Panisse. The idea got bigger and bigger and won the hearts of Gen X chefs in the 1990s. What New York magazine critic Adam Platt called "haute barnyard" had come to define America. Words like seasonal, local and, best of all, green market were shibboleths for every self-respecting cook from potato peeler on up. It made for a lot of roasted heritage pork and hand-foraged...