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...steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch a 5-min. videotape that highlights JAL destinations. Reservations for the restaurant, which will be open until September at Osaka's flower exposition, can be booked through the airline's ticketing system. The experience, however, is not entirely authentic. Diners are not required to wear a seat belt...
...Karens may be the most civilized guerrillas on earth. At army headquarters in Manerplaw, deep in the jungle of Burma, enlisted men maintain neat parade grounds, teak officers' quarters, even the occasional flower bed of marigolds and roses. Bugles sound morning reveille, and new recruits march to target practice under a gatepost that carries a black-lettered sign, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. Even in Komura, a muddy labyrinth of trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded...
...Prices today are appalling: a Coca-Cola costs $5, a Bloody Mary $10. But as one sits on the eastern terrace of the Deux Magots in a spring sunset, looking out toward the medieval church spire across a newly installed array of lilacs, tulips and apple trees all in flower, one can hardly help feeling that such a vista is worth almost any price...
Greyhound is as much a part of rural economic life as the local filling station or coffee shop. Businesses use buses to ship packages and other small freight that truckers will not handle. "Flower boxes aren't the right size for UPS," frets Main Street florist Reta Zollars, who has been getting fresh flowers via Greyhound for 15 years. For now, at least, her business is safe. Company management has frantically patched together its Los Angeles-Bishop route by chartering buses from other lines to fill in the schedule...
Many of the works recount famous myths in the culture, but unless you happen to have studied Islamic manuscripts, you might be wondering what the characters in the paintings are actually doing. But if you guessed that, in this idealized world, the princes easily vanquish ugly demons in flower-strewn gardens, or that magical beasts roam emerald green fields as gilded clouds roll through indigo skies, you would probably be right...