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...beautiful and interesting excursions, the country outside Jinghong provides endless choices. Walkers can enjoy jungle jaunts along the Mekong and through Dai or Hani villages (see DETOUR). The main draw is the cultural diversity of tribal minorities. Predominantly populated by the Buddhist Dai, Banna is ethnically linked to the hill tribes of Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Other smaller groups in the area are the Hani and Lahu peoples, mainly of Tibetan stock. Known for their hospitality and resistance to assimilation, the indigenous cultures provide a color and individualism very different from that found in other, more monolithic parts...
...Kiss of the Dragon, a brooding, bustling action film that premiered in the U.S. a few weeks ago and opens in Hong Kong and other Asian outposts next week, is Li's surprising detour de France. It imagines that Liujian (Li), a detective from the PRC, has come to Paris to track down some very bad folks. He soon learns that the worst baddies are in the Paris police force. Inspecteur Richard (TchEky Karyo)?who kills for profit, for revenge and, sometimes, just for fun?frames Liujian for murder, then realizes that his patsy has a copy of a videotape...
Chittagong is a good base for traveling into the precipitous jungle hills bordering Burma to visit indigenous tribes (see Detour). But check on security: it was here insurgents took two Danes and a Briton hostage in February. (Soldiers freed them a month later.) You can also take a 20-minute motorcycle-taxi ride north to Sitakunda, one of the great graveyards of the sea. At first glance, it seems like just another coastal town on the way to somewhere else. But behind the row of one- and two-story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores...
...march took a minor detour in Quincy Square-to the surprise of the management of the Inn at Harvard-and a theater troupe called Class Act did a parody of the "Harvard University Administrative Drill Team...
...like the nauseatingly responsible, health-conscious clotheshorse that I am, I make a detour to another, less pricey boutique. Still bent on adding something resembling height to my five-foot- five-inch frame, I find myself a pair of stolid, thick-heeled two-and-a-half-inch pumps. And every time I wear them, I try to ignore their dependable chunkiness, telling myself I'm compromising mere aesthetics for something far more enduring: The ability to walk...