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...curry breakfasts, but backpackers can find cheaper. In a Burmese restaurant, expect to pay $1-5 for a spread that includes curry, pickled tea, fried vegetables and rice. Try the Green Elephant toward the airport. The 50th Street Bar and Grill, a wood and rattan showpiece, also has delicious fusion fare...
Frusciante's solo explorations are in no way reminiscent of Summer's own new age prog-fusion instrumentals, however, and a better reference point might be Blur's Graham Coxon. The quintessential Britpop guitarist surprised a lot of people with his lovely and overlooked (if somewhat slight) The Sky Is Too High in 1998. Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty...
Pilgrims, travelers and conquerors from the 3rd century A.D. onwards have marveled at the two towering Buddha statues of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan. Hewn from sandstone cliffs, these two giants, 53 m and 35 m high, are a fusion of Classical Greek and Indian art that flourished along the ancient Silk Road. Despite their massive size, the standing Buddhas possess an ethereal lightness. It's as if they managed to levitate above a millennium of warfare and calamity that has plagued Afghanistan, at least until the fiercely Islamic Taliban rulers fixed the Buddhas in their gun-sights...
...conference reveals a curious fusion between two seemingly exclusive worlds...
Holdren began his career as a physicist, and was involved in early research on nuclear fusion. His interest in energy technology eventually led to a lifetime of work on the interface of science and public policy...