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...Locals are wary of getting caught in the cross fire. By dusk, streets are deserted and homes and shops shuttered in many small towns. "Frankly, we're too afraid to go out at night," says Waehamad Ismail, a farmer who lives on the edge of Sungai Padi. The police are even more nervous. To calm his officers, National Police Chief Sant Saturanond headed south last week to hand out 1,500 bulletproof vests. And if Kevlar doesn't work, maybe magic will. The chief brought along a revered Buddhist monk to distribute sacred, protective amulets...
...young British artists mummify sharks, put their unmade beds on display or trot round the celebrity circuit. Some stay quietly in their studios, recording their surroundings in empty cityscapes haunted by their missing inhabitants, lit by streetlamps, early dawn or winter dusk. Chris Campbell's specialty is car wrecks under a sodium glare. He finds most of his models in the streets around his studio in Walthamstow, in east London. In his "first grand car painting," the car lurks behind a billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice...
...ordinary life with a dose of terror, for the deepest fears derive not from the wildly grotesque, but from the slightly twisted familiar. Terror is a thing of the mind, not the eyes, and the line between mundane normality and unbridled horror can be as thin as that between dusk and night...
...Nestled in the heart of Nambung National Park 245 km north of Perth, the limestone formations, which range in height from a few millimeters to four meters, have been sculpted by the erosive forces of wind and water. A dawn or dusk visit is a must. At these times, the pillars take on an ethereal beauty, casting shadows that lend an eerie ambiance to the landscape...
...mate successfully two of the three remaining birds in the species. Suffering from habitat loss and disease, the po'ouli faces extinction on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano. Researchers at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project finally captured one of the two remaining females last month. At dusk the female was released into the territory of the only remaining male. But the next morning, the female po'ouli fluttered homeward without ever encountering the unaware male. "We're disappointed," said project coordinator Jim Groombridge, "but hopeful...