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Every day, the fancy jeeps cruise past Palmira Pereira's shack on the northern coast of East Timor. Sometimes, the passengers inside the air-conditioned vehicles raise their hands in greeting, and Pereira, or one of her 10 children, waves back. But the occupants of the cars-owned by the government, the U.N. or other organizations that are helping to run this infant country, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002-have never stopped to meet the Pereiras. If they did, they would find a family that has not eaten rice in three months because of shortages that have nearly...
...collection of travel guides. To enter the latter's realm-or, for that matter, the domain of the Luxe City Guides or the Wallpaper City Guides-is to land in a parallel universe of depressingly uniform bars and boutiques. You assume you are experiencing a city at its hedonistic, air-kissing optimum; in fact, you are barely experiencing the city at all. If a visit to Bangkok or Barcelona consists of being seen at what the callow bourgeoisie have decided are the "right" vodka bars, then who's guilty of fostering bland internationalism? It's not just the Holiday...
...wannabes occupy late-night slots on the BBC and the country's commercial networks, but their employers are quick to rein them in if they stray too far from properly milquetoast commentary. That's in part to avoid censure from Ofcom, the independent regulator charged with ensuring that on-air political programming stays ideology free...
Jean-Cyrill Spinetta recalls the dark days of 1997 when he took command of financially strapped Air France, charged with pulling the airline out of a tailspin of labor unrest and a half-decade of losses. A growing number of French customers, long accustomed to work stoppages, viewed the airline with distrust and scorn. "When people start looking at their own flag carrier as unreliable, you've really got a problem," says Spinetta...
...like the intrepid Magellan, the Air Force pilots were flummoxed by the time-space continuum. In the pilots' case, the problem was fixed within 48 hours when Lockmart developed a software patch. It's not much different from the one you've recently received so your computer can adapt to the earlier arrival of Daylight Saving Time...