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...Adam & Eve Salon—“a unisex beauty parlor”—my hair was cut by a black African. But before she laid hands on me, I was greeted, scheduled and asked in sterling English by an Indian employer what should be the fate of my locks. She didn’t speak to her underling in Swahili, the lingua franca of Africa’s Eastern coast, but rather in Hindi. In this place, two languages separated me from understanding...
...This fatalism is mirrored in Asia's motoring society as a whole. Bangkok-based professor Yordphol says many Thai motorists believe that no matter how defensively they drive, their fate is predetermined. "We are trying to persuade them that accidents are not an act of God," Yordphol says, "that you can avoid them if you are careful, obey the laws, and not speed or drive under the influence...
...only scenarios but auteurs worth gambling on. We'll know soon enough whether Nakata and Shimizu flourish or perish in Tinseltown. But two changes can be expected. The U.S. remakes will streamline the original films' perplexing (and beguiling) ambiguity. And the heroines, who in Japan often accept their fate passively, will be morphed into righteous fighters...
Drawing heavily upon the principles handed down by the United States founders, Byrd argued that no single individual was ever meant to wield such influence over the fate of the nation...
...part of it. And the moment you start to do that, you're inviting the system to cut you off, and you drop off like a bit of dandruff. I don't think we're slated for great things at this point." The solution? Archer, who founded the fate project (Future of Australia's Threatened Ecosystems), says 20% of the country's land needs to be made "conservation capable" (up from the current 8%) and that Australia must stop depending on imported industries, such as cattle and sheep, that cause land degradation. "We're in trouble. We know...