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...golden-spired Buddhist temples, Thailand markets itself as a tourist haven. But the Southeast Asian nation has another side it would rather visitors not see: an Islamic insurgency in the country's far south that has claimed more than 2,100 lives since 2004. On May 31, a dozen paramilitary rangers were killed in an ambush. The following weekend, two civilians were shot dead, and 20 soccer players were injured by an on-field bomb...
...ritual ceremonies-called dau to, literally "fighting and criticism"- faded as Hanoi became more adept at stifling dissent and economic reforms loosened controls on everyday life. But with a new generation of activists like Dai agitating for change, dau to seems to be making a comeback. Out of the dozen dissidents arrested over the past four months, at least three have endured public humiliations as well. "They want to frighten us," Dai told TIME in late February. "They use the people and our neighbors to try to shame us." As Dai found out, though, Vietnam's rulers are also willing...
...well as train, air and bus routes) promises more opportunities to veer off the beaten path. And for those less able or inclined to spend a fortune on renovated palaces, Rajasthan's tourism board recently put together a list of cheap and comfortable budget hotels in over two dozen cities across the state (see rajasthantourism.gov.in...
Kapuscinski's work is itself something of a library, including more than two dozen volumes of biography, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography, translated into nearly 30 languages. The Emperor was the first in a projected trilogy about dictators. The second installment, Shah of Shahs, traces the rise and fall of Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Kapuscinski labored for years on a third volume, about Uganda's Idi Amin, but apparently could not find words for his excesses. When the Soviet Union foundered in the late 1980s, he abandoned Amin and headed for Moscow. The result, Imperium, is a perceptive travelogue...
...About a dozen students collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition calling on Harvard to end its use of eggs from chickens that spend their days in 67-square-inch “batterycages...