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...scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except the revolution," he says, glancing at the communist People's Committee official who is in attendance...
...Berthillon still personally selects the grapes for his grape-rum ice cream. He also ensures that none of the chocolate ingredients has been scorched during preparation and, to limit nitrate levels, he uses only mineral water. Dairy products in Berthillon ice cream were supplied by the same Norman farmer for decades, and when the best fruit on offer in Paris is deemed not good enough, Berthillon will have mandarin oranges flown in from Sicily and fresh wild strawberries from Málaga...
SHENYANG, China—The statue of Chairman Mao in Shenyang rises three or four stories to survey Zhongshan Square, without a doubt cutting a more imposing figure than any Mercedes-chauffeured communist official or donkey-cart-driving farmer in this provincial capital of 7 million. Clad in an overcoat, which probably still leaves him chilly during the northeastern China winters, Mao stretches forth one arm over the sledgehammer-swinging, automatic rifle-slinging soldiers, workers and peasants surging forth from his feet in sculpted struggle against the forces of the West, capitalism, imperialism and whatever else. He offers, in short...
Mexico has never been exactly gentle with illegal migrants. Marco Herazo Diaz, 26, a Honduran farmer, is waiting at Tapachula's Catholic-run shelter, the House of the Migrant, to see if his sister in Compton, Calif., can send him money; he gave his last $50 to a man who said he was an immigration agent. Southern Mexico is full of bandits, some of them Central Americans themselves. "The migrant's route is a cemetery without crosses," says Father Flor Maria Rigoni, who runs the shelter...
...Much of the wartime population has passed away, but Hiromitsu Yasumura learned the tale from village elders while still a child?and was ordered never to tell an outsider. Sitting in the village meeting hall, the lone building in what passes for Main Street, the orchid farmer, 46, and his wife Rie, 45, recount what happened...