Word: dragone
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...there is always a time and place for comic relief—especially in the heat of battle, when you need a little laugh the most. Second, sometimes being a hero can simply come from doing the right thing—although it often involves slaying a fire-breathing dragon as well...
...part of the government's efforts to expunge foreign influences. Locals were required to open their homes for public scrutiny, a practice designed to expose Christians hidden in the community. It's ironic that the highlight of this xenophobia-inspired festival is the swirling acrobatics of the Chinese dragon dance. Once despised, Nagasaki's foreign flavor has become its greatest strength...
Potter-besotted readers worldwide are desperate for author J.K. Rowling to stop counting her gazillions and finish the next Harry Potter book. But in China, there's no need to wait. Middle Kingdom readers are eagerly slapping down $1.80 for Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People...
...While their inspirational performance at this World Cup might seem like a bolt from the blue, Japan's football skills have been under development for a decade. Much of the credit for this year's breakthrough inevitably goes to their fire-breathing dragon of a coach, Philippe Troussier. The French import, known for gesticulating wildly on the sidelines while his interpreter perfectly mimics his antics, once taunted his players for being pampered babies whose play lacked passion. This is no longer an issue. "Their midfield play is superb," says Leonardo, the Brazilian giant from the 1994 winning World Cup team...
...fairy tales he heard as a boy from the Padaung's bewitching tribeswomen, still better known today as "long necks" or "giraffe women" for the heavy brass coils they wear around their throats. They taught him their colorful creation myth: the tribe was born of a lovelorn she-dragon impregnated by the wind. One grandmother recalls a European journey that prefigures Khoo Thwe's own. In the 1930s she joined a troupe of Padaung women who toured England in a circus freak show?although grandma never doubted who the real freaks were. "The English are a very strange tribe...