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...easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels for $700 a night, and hear about the local incarnate lama who is fêted in Hollywood for his movie The Cup. Thimphu is the place on which foreign sights are set (even though fewer than 10,000 official tourists still visit every year), not Kathmandu. "You know anything about motorbiking across Bhutan?" a snaggle-toothed hippie asked me as he let me into a Californian hot-springs compound...
...accustomed to on a daily basis," says Bentoumi. "When I can get back to my history, to my father's history, it's exciting." Some of the national ties can be more distant. Luger Sarah Podorieszach, from Calgary, Canada, was discovered by Italian scouts at the 2003 World Cup. She was eligible for Italian citizenship through her grandparents, who were from Trieste. "With the Canadians, I was only on the development team," she says. "When I came to Italy, they saw my talent and put me on the team." She'd never even visited Italy until moving there...
...REACH BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL ELITES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS? In our exchange programs, we're making a real effort to reach out to young people in different populations, not just élites. We've got a World Cup program--soccer is a world sport, something America took up after the rest of the world--and so we're going to have our embassies very involved in inviting kids to come watch the games this summer...
...Start your day right with a big cup of homegrown coffee from Island Lava Java, tel: (1-808) 327 2161. This bustling breakfast venue is packed from about 8 a.m. with locals and tourists alike. If the super-sized plates of eggs, bacon and potatoes are too much, try the homemade waffles...
...glamorous - we went to diners, we went to greasy spoons, we went to falafel places. It was really down and dirty. I was broke, too. I had no money at all. I was at NYU, putting myself through school, working like four jobs. So mostly it was just cup of coffee, glass of cheap wine. I still can't drink red wine. I can never drink it again, because it was just cheap red wine. I had a hangover for probably a whole year...