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...reason is simple: a generation is on the move. In burgeoning numbers and with astounding ease, young adults in Europe are hurdling national barriers, dumping old routines and abandoning traditional career choices in search of their own, highly personalized, custom-made paths to happiness. And for many, that means leading peripatetic, borderless lives that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. All of this is forming the basis for a common European identity in which national and regional ties co-exist with a new and still evolving ésprit de Europe...
...There may have been a time when the law did matter in Indonesia, but it's hard to remember that now. Last week, Indonesia's central Kalimantan province reverted to the law of the jungle when indigenous Dayaks, celebrated in tourism brochures for their tribal customs and picturesque, dormitory-style long-houses, went on a coordinated spree of murder against the province's migrant community from the arid island of Madura. And concepts like rule of law began to seem completely irrelevant when the Dayaks, following their traditional custom, began eating the body parts of their victims to gain spiritual...
...skeptic like me a little weak in the knees. It's impeccably stylish, right down to its cobalt blue docking station and purple cable connector, and at $150 to $190 (depending on the type of PC connection you choose), it's cheaper than most full-size handhelds. It's custom-made for notebook users who can slide it into a PC card slot for updates. True, it doesn't offer all the expansion options of the bigger handhelds, such as games, e-books and MP3 players. And I wish it had a backlit screen to make reading its small type...
...Rockland County village of New Square last August, while she was running for the Senate. State party operatives thought the tiny community--which had often voted in a bloc in the past--was a promising one for Hillary in her race against Republican Rick Lazio. Following Hasidic custom, Hillary covered her head and chatted about the village's health-care services from across a coffee table, on which a tall bouquet of flowers served as the traditional screen that Hasidim require between the sexes. As far as anyone knows, that was a campaign event only; no pardons were mentioned...
...when hope of finding the missing finally does fade, there will be pressure to recover the bodies, even if that means raising the Ehime Maru from 530 m down on the seabed. Japanese custom requires that families bury their dead?or some artifact from them?so that their souls are not condemned to an eternity of restless roaming. For the people of Uwajima, a town that has not lost a boat at sea for more than 50 years, this is a crucial matter of closure...