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...Jinghong, offers tree houses in the forest canopy for around $25 a night. Take a guide and venture deep into the forest to try to see the wild elephants?and even, it's rumored, the odd tiger?that still live in the park. Here, too, strangely shaped trees abound. As before, however, games of banyan make-believe are recommended only for the severely suggestible...
...sharp and graphic as the differences over the Middle East may be, they're hardly the only show in town. Everyone from Latinos to Gypsies is pressing their own legitimate grievances, and even the generic anti-globalization protestors are showing up. Screaming ironies abound: Here you'll find Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, author of a cynical pogrom to drive white farmers off the land, on "Landlessness as Racism...
Okinawa hates America, and Okinawa loves America. Okinawa is in fact so American that it can appear deceptively like home to the 25,203 U.S. servicemen stationed on its 38 U.S. military facilities. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound--America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. A two-story emporium called American Depot stands in the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel emblazoned with a Coca-Cola logo. Even at traditional matsuri, or summer festivals, children wave cotton candy, shirtless skateboarders do stunts on open walkways and women in shorts and bikini tops lick jewel-colored snow cones...
...Conspiracy theories abound on the Internet. Skrzyniarz thinks critics are pawns of the moguls; Drew McWeeny thinks they?ve lost the dewy magic of moviemania. "So many critics these days are cynical," he says. "They?ve seen so much they?ve burned out on their love of films." Ain?t-it-cool regulars know McWeeny (itself a fabulous moniker for an internet geek) as Moriarty, the insider who has written nearly 300 reviews of movies and movie scripts...
...rest of the prefecture, is home to no less than 38 U.S. military facilities. And yet tourists and dream-seekers from the Japanese mainland flock to the archipelago's 60 tropical islands precisely for its slice of red, white and blue, an ethos Okinawa cultivates. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound?America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. Restaurants offer steak, ice cream and hybrid dishes like taco rice. Military surplus stores sell American flak jackets, dog tags, camouflage pants and old grenades...