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...limestone cliff overlooking the ocean?is home to some of the finest examples of Portuguese architecture in East Timor, including the newly restored and renamed Pousada Baucau, once the infamous Hotel Flamboyan. Now under Timorese management, this grand hotel is the place to enjoy spicy Portuguese-Timorese fusion food and a glass of fine Portuguese wine before retiring for the night. Reassuringly, the staff now carry corkscrews instead of M-16s. Rooms cost $50 a night, including breakfast?call (61418) 176 003 for reservations. Down the road at the Perola de Timor restaurant a more basic fare is on offer...
...myths, Singaporean folktales, the Cultural Revolution, Catholic theology and French existentialism. In this intellectually challenging tapestry are allusions to Borges meshed with Chinese opera, and characters who ride on tiger-shaped clouds mixed up with scholars who discuss Milan Kundera. If the new Asia defines itself by a creative fusion of Eastern and Western influences, then readers may find in Playing Madame Mao the definitive new Asian literary novel...
...There was good news for patients struggling with drug-resistant AIDS; Roche's Enfuvirtide, or T-20, has had great success in two large late-stage trials. The drug is a so-called "fusion inhibitor," which, when added to a patient's larger drug cocktail, reduces the HIV levels found in the blood. T-20's trial performance was better than what researchers had hoped for. But even amidst this positive development, some AIDS experts expressed concern that the drug might have unknown long-term side effects. (The trials lasted just 24 weeks...
...approaches, she retreats. But when the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate but powerful sensuality...
...More than anything right now, they say, Afghans need the Buddha unearthed as symbolic proof that the Taliban weren't able to eradicate all of the country's rich, pre-Islamic heritage. The country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left by the destruction of the two Buddhas," says Afghan...