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...Japan, has been traveling to China since 1994 and shot most of this collection in the late 1990s. But many of the photographs look much older. A woman humping a load of bricks up a cobblestone street in Yunnan, a peasant in a straw hat watching river boats, a beggar near the imperial palace?these scenes could date back to a time when the camera had only just been invented. This is deliberate. Delano collects old photographs and says he's drawn to the similarities between today's China and a bygone America, especially in the "gritty honesty, the timeless...
...between jobless and low-paid workers and young, urban professionals. "The gap between winners and losers used to be bridged by the welfare state," says Franz Walter, a political scientist at Göttingen University. "That is no longer happening. We are back in the Middle Ages, with the beggar in front of the church doors." Whatever government emerges will have to bridge the divides. But neither Schröder nor Merkel seems well suited to unify after a campaign in which both fought so fiercely. "The chemistry is terrible at the moment," concedes Gerd Langguth, a political scientist...
...this feels strange, but not nearly as strange as talking to Robert Goulet about it, especially on three hours of sleep. "You beggar, it's not Sin City," he says. "It's Fun City." He has a point. It's a Vegas where the average tourist gambles only four hours in his four-day stay. That's fine with the casinos, since today they make more on rooms, drinks, food, shopping and entertainment--the stuff they used to give away to get you to gamble...
...What happens in Vegas, in fact, is bragged about at home for months afterward - and home might be in America, Europe or anywhere else in the world. All this feels strange, but not nearly as strange as talking to Robert Goulet about it on three hours of sleep. "You beggar, it's not Sin City," he says. "It's Fun City." The lounge singer has a point. It's a Vegas where the average tourist gambles only four hours in a four-day stay. That's fine with the casinos, since today they make more on rooms, food, drinks...
...story of India's wildlife is a depressing tale of pollution, encroachment and poaching. But in the country's largest metropolis, nature is biting back. A 55-year-old beggar and a teenager were dragged off last week while they slept and were killed by leopards in Bombay's 283-hectare Sanjay Gandhi National Park, capping a deadly June in which 11 people were eaten by the predators...