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...Tselentis '03 reports. In South Africa, shifty characters loitering on street corners late at night are the ones sporting the haircut. Wai Tim Yu '03 tells of the occasional mullet for the purpose of a rebellious image in his native Hong Kong. An avid frequenter of Australia's Gold Coast, Yu notes that the mullet is much more common in the Land Down Under. There, he declares, the attitude can be summed up as "mullet for the sake of mullet...
...which discussed Taiwan at length, no mention was made by Chinese officials of the shift in policy. Perhaps the U.S. should have expected some kind of "February surprise" before the Taiwanese elections; after all, the last time Taiwan had presidential elections, in 1996, China fired missiles off the Taiwan coast in a none-too-subtle warning...
Pritchard has done his most innovative work along the Atlantic coast in Guyana, a haven for sea turtles. By the 1960s, overhunting by local Arawak Indians--themselves an endangered group--had ravaged the turtle population. But Pritchard helped save both turtles and tribe: he has lobbied Guyana and private sources for grants that have weaned the Arawaks off turtle meat and into chicken farming. And he hires Arawaks to tag turtles for research and defend nesting grounds. The killing has largely stopped, he says, because turtle protection is now "a family discipline thing" among Arawaks, "rather than an outsider laying...
...Instead, I think of the images, every one suffused with emotion, freshness and loveliness. I could write a whole book about the colors in the film. The film was shot on location on the Normandy coast, but it looks like the greatest stage set ever. In fact, the rainy town of Cherbourg was transformed during the production of the film with an incredible makeover of primary toned paints; every wall, streetlight, automobile and shop window harmonizes perfectly with the beautiful costumes of the characters. Sure, the art design would be several shades of twee, if it weren't so damned...
...Cuban MiG's in international water space over the Florida Straits. The four pilots, three American citizens and one legal alien, were members of a humanitarian group called Brothers to the Rescue. In more than 1,800 missions over the last nine years, the group has assisted the Coast Guard in locating desperate refugees and saving them from a watery grave...