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...airline meals disappear, airport concessionaires are stepping in with souped-up meals-to-go. Anton Airfood has begun selling ergonomically packaged meals at 10 airports and hopes to add three more this summer...
...REPUBLIC OF CONGO The U.N. authorized a French-led peacekeeping force to go to the eastern Ituri region, where brutal tribal warfare has resulted in the killing of more than 400 people in recent weeks. The French troops have a mandate to protect civilians and to secure a regional airport. Democracy Beckons RWANDA Voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, paving the way for the first multiparty elections in four decades, to be held later this year. The text bans the formation of political parties that identify themselves along ethnic lines, in an attempt to avoid a repeat...
...evocation by Pyle and Faas of war-era Saigon and the world's "first living-room war" is brisk and familiar: the heart-stopping nosedive into Tan Son Nhut airport to avoid sniper fire; the U.S. military's "Five O'Clock Follies" briefings; as well as the discovery that TIME's chief Vietnamese reporter was a spy for the North. I read it with the nagging sense that once you've read all journalistic memoirs from 'Nam, you've still only read one (and it's called Dispatches...
...give a shit about you. We are the lion in the jungle, and we are eating you because we are more powerful.' Fine. But all this talk of goodness and liberation and 'We love you' makes me sick." After two months fighting for a visa, Satrapi arrived at JFK Airport in New York on May 14. For an hour and a half she was interrogated, fingerprinted and, she says, talked down to by customs officials. Afterward, in the corridor of the airport, drained and shaken, she did something she has never done: she fainted, "like one of these Victorian ladies...
...Fake Accompli If you've ever been tempted to steal a broken bit of statuary or shove ancient temple stones in your backpack, you'll be thrilled to know you can now play tomb raider without risking ugly scenes at the airport or a one-way trip to some bug-infested jail. At Artisans D'Angkor, tel: (855-63) 964097, off Siem Reap's Sivatha Boulevard, talented youngsters turn out gorgeous wood and stone replicas of famous Khmer art. A mere $500 will get you a 50-centimeter-tall Jayavarman VII head. But be warned: it's authentic sandstone...