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...Politics further scrambled Jenkins' life. The school suddenly shut down, he says, just after a deadly exchange along the DMZ that became known as the Panmunjom incident. On Aug. 18, 1976, two American officers were hacked to death with axes and metal pikes by a band of North Korean border guards. The melee broke out after the North Koreans tried to stop American and South Korean soldiers from trimming tree branches that blocked the line of sight. The North Koreans expected retaliation for the killings. "They mobilized for war instantly," Jenkins says. "Everybody evacuated and joined up with their units...
When Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1978, it was the beginning of the end for the murderous Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his deputies fled into jungle exile, where the so-called Brother No. 1 died in 1998. A much less exalted band of 12, including three Khmer Rouge soldiers and their wives, decided to wait out the invasion in a remote part of Cambodia's northeast known as the Dragon's Tail. They stayed there for 26 years. Last month, they came out of hiding to a world they didn't know existed: a country...
...Escorted back to their native province of Ratanakiri in mid-November, the lost band told government officials and human-rights workers that they had lived in a remote hill-tribe area until 1984 and then pushed into isolated jungles, living off animals and plants. The transition to civilization has been jarring. Born and raised in the jungle, a 25-year-old woman called At said none in the group had ever suffered a serious illness-until they came into contact with other people, when many succumbed to sickness or fevers. Ro'mam Luong, 55, was amazed at the color...
...always fast enough to transport movies without glitches; you may have noticed the problem when trying to beam Bridget Jones's Diary from the computer in your living room to your TV in the corner. Several companies are working to develop another wireless technology called UWB (ultra wide band) that provides 10 times the bandwidth of wi-fi. Although UWB signals don't travel as far as wi-fi, they travel far enough to beam Bridget. One of the leaders in this potentially lucrative field is Tel Aviv-based Wisair. The company's founder and chief executive David Yaish touts...
Case and her entourage—consisting of über-competent Canadian surf-psychedelic-country rock band The Sadies (who just released their debut Favourite Colours), brilliant pedal steel guitarist John Rauhouse and vocalists Carolyn Mark and Kelly Hogan—take on several different styles in this remarkably diverse collection. The opening track “If You Knew” features bold vocals over an Ennio Morricone-esque groove that is augmented by Rauhouse’s tremendous feel and copious amounts of reverb and tremolo. “Hex” has more...