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Is there a college student alive who hasn't heard of George Orwell? Or his prescient novels Animal Farm and 1984 - at least in their Hollywood versions? Or any of those chilling words and phrases he gave us: Newspeak, double-think, unperson, cold war, Ministry of Truth, Big Brother is...
$1,316 is the sum the Malaysian government pays to each survivor of an elephant, tiger or wild-boar attack
This isn't a terrific film; it's a murmuring, meandering study with an apocalyptic punch line. But the corpses strewing the school corridors don't make the movie anti-American, any more than Hamlet is anti-Danish. Elephant depicts evil, and the ordinary people who, through bad luck, get...
Besides, superlatives are Umphang's stock in trade. By day's end, we would be camped at Southeast Asia's biggest waterfall (Thi Lor Su, an aquatic Goliath some 400 m tall and 500 m wide), getting ready to trek through Thailand's most virginal teak forests before clambering onto...
Kids might get a kick out of living Swiss Family Robinson-style for a spell, but in Renudih it's hardly a lark. Over the past three years 27 people have been killed by stampeding elephants, and several women have been forced to give birth in the treetops, without medical...