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...also raises the dilemma of how the caddie is best to convey one's clubs. The most satisfactory solution to my mind would be to adopt the method illustrated by the caddies at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, Hong Kong. By dangling both bags on a bamboo pole across his shoulders, the caddie could avoid setting the bags down in the snow for each club selection without undue physical strain...
...evident than in Phong Saly province, a remote region that juts into southern China. There, the Pa thet Lao have set up prison camps for "enemies of the state" that seem like something out of Solzhenitsyn: their heavy log walls are covered with barbed wire and bordered with sharp bamboo stakes; beyond, there is nothing but dense jungle and forbidding mountains. "You can try to escape," the guards taunt their charges, "but we'll have you back here within seven days...
...altars. Sofu has made it a highly secular art and brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass, dead flowers or dyed feathers. Explaining his break with tradition, he once proclaimed: "We should always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and not become...
...ills of the continent are apparent in most of the African countries, and my experience of living in a village of about 20 people and three bamboo huts was an aweinspiring one. At Kadingbili, I saw the life of a people that have never been exposed to the western way of life. Death, disease, hunger, poverty, ignorance and superstition were visible everywhere; like those signs in South Africa that read, "Reserved for Whites Only." Here, the invisible signs read "Reserved for Africans Only." I lived in their midst, shared their hardships, their laughters and tears, their feeble hopes and doubtful...
Despite the long days and spare quarters, the Jamaicans seem to enjoy their stint at Bolton. For Trevor Brown, 20, a native of Portland, Jamaica, apple picking has been a steady and therefore welcome source of income for the past four years. At home, Brown guides tourists on a bamboo raft down the Rio Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking...