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...vendors who sell coffee and other necessities to residents who live in the weathered stilt houses lining the waterways. At times we plowed through clumps of water hyacinths so thick we almost stalled, until Poon cut the motor, lifted the propeller out of the water and drifted through the flower-flecked foliage. This route was a glimpse into the way Bangkok used to be, he told me, before the canals were paved over to make room for cars...
...that matchup the Russians skated a nearly clean program while Sale singled a double Axel. But with the Russians coming off a weak season, no one raised a fuss. This year Sale and Pelletier trotted out Orchid, a new high-concept routine (he played the stem, she the blooming flower) but on the eve of the Olympics settled on Love Story, based on the 1970 love-and-death melodrama, which first enchanted judges back...
...vignette, Lewis offers a European's-eye view of how Muslims, primarily in the Middle East, arrived at their current sorry pass. He gives Islam full credit for a millennium of glory, when the faith conquered much of the world, dominated the global economy, and brought civilization to high flower in science, medicine, classical learning. But his interest is in unraveling the recent centuries in which the Muslim world lost virtually all of it, dating from Kara Mustafa's military defeat at the gates of Vienna...
...year-old girl lies in a hospital bed as foreign doctors poke at the blistering bruises tracing her body. Baffled, they fill petri dishes with bits of her skin and scribble detailed notes about the sores that flower bright pink and yellow. She can see her little brother next to her, and she holds his hand between their cots. Soon, her brother will die, his breath giving way to a malady humanity has never seen before: the effects of nuclear radiation...
...Best Markets: On Sunday mornings, the food-and-flower market on the Quai des Celestins, and the artists? and artisans? market across the Saône on the Quai Romain-Rolland...