Word: bamboos
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...Many kids know his Music on the Bamboo Radio, about a boy stranded in Hong Kong by the 1941 Japanese invasion. Conservationists value Booth's many books and TV documentaries on African wildlife (he spent a few years in Kenya). There's also his 1985 international best seller Hiroshima Joe, the tale of a captured British soldier who survives the first atomic bombing. And Booth's Industry of Souls was short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998 (after being rejected by major publishers and picked up by a small imprint for a pitiful $1,800 advance...
...traditional archery competitions held in the snow-swept Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, women play a crucial role. But it's not as athletes aiming bamboo bows strung with lengths of stinging-nettle vine. Instead, Bhutanese women cluster near the male archers and take sole responsibility for keeping them from piercing the bull's-eye. "We distract them by singing rude songs," says Tshering Chhoden. "It's all part of the game." Adds her fellow Bhutanese Dhruba Kumar Chhetri: "The best thing to say is that the archer's wife has been sleeping around. That makes his concentration slip a little...
...books by other poets (Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney) that he produced at his small publishing house Sceptre Press, and Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters. So why haven't more people heard of him? Many kids will appreciate his Music on the Bamboo Radio, about a boy stranded in Hong Kong by the 1941 Japanese invasion. Conservationists value Booth's many books and TV documentaries on African wildlife (he spent a few years in Kenya). There's also a small chance you saw a copy of his 1985 adult novel Hiroshima Joe, the tale...
...Zhang Ziyi provides the beating heart of Daggers. The impetuous girl of Crouching Tiger has grown up. She can emote, even if the sources of those emotions arise from a script that too often veers into the cartoonish. Zhang outshines the green groves of bamboo, the autumn leaves falling, all the beauty of China. (And parts of Ukraine, where some of the film was shot for want of an actual unspoiled Chinese forest.) As Zhang Ziyi matures, some might say her director is regressing. Perhaps the red lantern won't be raised again, and maybe China's aspiring serious moviemakers...
...Thirty million people are in distress nationwide; nearly 500 people and 55,000 cows have died from drowning, disease or bites from snakes crowding the dry land. In her hut in eastern Dhaka, 20-year-old garment factory worker Rahela Khatoon chained her two-year-old son to a bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat," she says. "The snakes swim under the bed." With August historically bringing the heaviest rain, the U.N. is warning...