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...taste in a city where massive car bombs have recently killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist. Yet the war is hot these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, BEIRUT: IT'S A BLAST...
...nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long after 1975-like those sipping the drinks. So what draws the young and trendy Lebanese crowd? "Our parents tell us the war was a good time," says bartender Ali Ajami, 21. It can certainly seem that way from the comfort...
...Hendrawan stands in the slaughtering yard surrounded by piles of yellow and green intestines, the concrete floor awash with blood. On the right, a group of men squat on the floor in a row, holding a four-meter reticulated python. Even in the dim light of the slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic...
...cardboard boxes marked "Frozen Fish." The boxes are stacked onto hand trolleys and rolled over to one of several refrigerated containers lined up next to each other. One worker swings open the door, releasing a frigid blast into the humid tropical air. Inside, hundreds of other boxes stacked from floor to ceiling are visible. "We can send one or two containers out a week," Hendrawan says. Chances of interception on the way to buyers are small. In 2001, for example, China banned all direct imports of live freshwater turtles from Indonesia in an attempt to stem the flow, notes Compton...
...city where massive bombs continue to go off, recently killing Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist. Yet the war is hot these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, beirut: it's a blast. But nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long...