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...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder If you recognize the name Paju, chances are that it conjures up visions of soldiers and barbed wire. As the South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism. Originally conceived by publisher Kim Eoun Ho as a "book village" similar to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Heyri...
...list extends from here, and as Wojtyla's extraordinary election more than a quarter-century ago proved, there is absolutely no predicting what will occur when the Cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel beneath the Michelangelo frescoes and devoutly swear to "preserve a scrupulous secrecy regarding everything that relates in any way to the election of the Roman Pontiff." Having pledged, they will get down to their task, filling in their ballots under the words "I elect as Supreme Pontiff." Outside, St. Peter's Square will be filled with pilgrims, gazing up at the chimney, awaiting the puff of white...
...Villagers in Keng Gnao, a small community on Nakai Plateau, are counting on it. They have been told for years that their thatched huts would one day lie beneath an enormous lake and that they would have to be relocated. A long time ago, the idea might have upset them. But in the intervening years, they have watched loggers decimate the plateau's lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao...
...winner, was accused of informing on his colleagues while a young man in the early 1970s; a court has cleared him of the charge. For Niezabitowska, the accusation against her is humiliating. "I would rather be accused of having killed someone than of being a traitor," she says, seated beneath portraits of her ancestors in the study of the 19th century mansion on the outskirts of Warsaw she and her huSBand have restored. "This kind of thing can destroy a person." "This kind of thing" has been happening across the former Soviet bloc as police archives, sealed since...
...beneath the flashy numbers and the gritty offensive instincts lies another similarity: the two are, first and foremost, blueliners...