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...Other letters range from gripes about Jar Jar Binks to complaints about commercialization. A pediatrician recently wrote an open letter on Salon.com taking issue with Lucas's newest fast food tie-ins, an Indy Whopper and a Snickers Adventure bar with coconut and chai. "Wouldn't Indy, now a senior citizen, have more than just a little bump in his cholesterol if he had scarfed down his namesake burger?" the doctor asks. "How could he be fit enough to chase down ancient relics while dodging boulders and outwitting Nazis...
...dozen trucks will do little to allay the vast destruction. In Bogalay, once a prosperous trading port, one third of buildings have collapsed. At a jetty along the Irrawady, two nearly week-old bodies, an adult and a child, lay among the storm's detritus of plywood, bamboo and coconut husks. Near the corpses, people went about their lives, tying bamboo poles together to build temporary lodging and jostling for limited supplies of cooking oil and diesel fuel. Prices have at least doubled, a further blow to people who lost all their savings when Nargis swept through...
...their flimsy shacks that night. By 9 p.m., delta residents realized this was no normal storm. Ei Phyu Aung, a 14-year-old girl, recalls her house suddenly floating away in what locals estimate was a twelve-foot wave. She slipped out a window and grabbed onto a coconut palm. By mid-morning the next day, the water had washed away her clothing but she held fast to the tree. "The people who held on to trees survived," she says, showing the oozing abrasion on her arm from her ordeal. "Those who didn't, died...
When the surge came, Myint Swe had somehow bundled his wife and eight children into his small boat and tethered it to a coconut tree. Then he climbed the tree and held on. Below him, the boat below pitched wildly as his terrified family safely rode out the storm...
...influx of foreigners has created a small yoga economy in Mysore. "Whatever they want, we give," says N. Harish Bheemaiah, managing director of Mysore Mandala Yogashala - lessons in classical Indian dance, music and painting, sattvik (vegetarian) food, accommodation, ayurvedic massage, and so on. In between coconut groves and rice paddies, cafes and eateries catering to foreigners have sprung up. An Austrian Caf? loudly announces itself with an orange-and-blue sign; not very far away is a Subway sandwich shop. But the locals are largely unaware of their city's status among the international yoga jet-set. Many...