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...formerly idyllic haven now crammed with dive shops, restaurants and travel agents offering cut-rate tours to see where Leonardo DiCaprio filmed The Beach, Australian Simone Richard has the traveler look down pat: washed-out Thai fisherman's pants, dirty blond hair squeezed into corn rows and fading henna on her hands. Over?honestly?banana pancakes, the 22-year-old says she's made friends with people from all over the world, except the countries she's visited. "Everywhere you go it's the same thing: travelers all over the place, and everybody sitting around watching bad movies at night...
...tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours a thin golden stream of corn. Her payload deposited, the lady scurries away to meet co-conspirator June?she doesn't want her full name revealed?at a white Volkswagon parked a block distant. Now it's June's turn to do the surreptitious feeding (pictured above). "They've been here for centuries," mourns June, who was born...
...First Lady arranged the festivities, and guests included childhood friends, senior staff members and college fraternity brothers. The menu was appropriately all-American: Fried chicken, potato salad and corn bread...
...many in the developed world, especially Western Europe and the U.S., the answer may be no. But for citizens of developing nations, the outlook (and the answer) is very different. The creation of genetically modified foods - like drought-resistant corn, for example, or super-nutritional rice - holds enormous promise for developing nations. But even as scientists develop GM crops with ever-increasing precision and skill, there is growing concern that first world disquiet over food safety and genetic engineering may slow or even stop the dissemination of bountiful GM crops to the countries where they are most needed...
...good, because the sparse crowd allowed the sounds of the game to be immediate, hollow. The ball thumped into the mitt and cracked off the bat. I remember leaping to my little feet as the game's first fly ball ascended. Dad knowingly commentated, "Can-a-corn." The out must have traveled all of a hundred feet...