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...Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, was one of those places where the world comes out to play. By 11 p.m. on Oct. 12, it was packed with the usual crowd--tanned Australian kids in shorts and halter tops dancing to house music, surfers in from the beach downing beers and Jell-O shots, expat sports teams from Hong Kong and Singapore, backpackers from around the world--the children of globalization, mobile phones in hand, making out before heading back to their cheap hotels. David Fielder, 46, a British rugby referee in town from Hong Kong for a game...
...brainstorming” for an animation thesis. He ventured to the ends of the Blue and Red lines and back photographing patterns and forms on both constructed and natural surfaces. The resulting 35-photo, untitled composition includes shots ranging from the hard-packed sand at Revere Beach to the gritty sidewalks of Cambridge in neutral colors and close-ups that force the viewer to consider what each is and how it adds up to the whole, lovely montage...
...hoping to experience one of Issyk-Kul's other attractions: the mud bath. But it was not to be. On offer instead were such dubious delights as "lavage of the stomach" and "urological prostate massage." This might be Boris Yeltsin's cup of tea. But for us, the beach beckoned...
...office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts...
...four-worders beware: there will be thousands upon thousands of people just like you out there, doing the same daily grind, ending up in the same sleep-deprived stupor at 26, the same mahogany office at 50, the same Florida beach...