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...what did you expect this week - optimism? Wall Street came back from an idyllic East Coast summer weekend with Friday's clouds in tow, using - gasp! - lackluster earnings news from 3M and Lexmark Technologies to sell the Dow off 100 and the NASDAQ off 25 by noon. (Disney presumably did not help matters by announcing that will buy Fox Family for $3 billion - and keep the 700 Club...
...expensive. In Aceh, the perception that the people are being ripped off leads to bloodshed. There's a constant military patrol even in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region defined not by its wonderful coffee or the sparkling blue water off the northern coast - almost shocking after the prevailing brown of what passes for harbors and rivers elsewhere - but by atrocities that have piled up over two decades of guerrilla warfare. Collectively, the voices make "Indonesia" seem like a contrived fantasy - seriously, 17,000 islands as one nation? - not a country...
...vacuum the sea floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize. More often, a living wage, or the promise of one, is thought to exist elsewhere, which is why there is a constant stream of migrant workers flowing across Indonesia. Earlier, on the north coast of Java, among colorful, undulant boats sardined within a Tuban inlet, I met Lasmari, 47, who had worked for seven years in Kalimantan as a carpenter. He made decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling to leave his family again...
...even better spot to spend a day, or even a few hours, is about 20 miles down the coast. Tiny, brightly colored Portofino has long been one of Italy's most chic resorts. Gossip about the recent mysterious death of a wealthy countess is the only hint of crime you're likely to find in this town of extraordinary Mediterranean views...
...Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. Offers kids 7 to 18 immersion in the language and culture of one country, such as France, Norway or Korea. And if your overstressed kid wants to coast, try the culti-camp set in "Hometown U.S.A...