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...biggest surprise facing Americans who visit Vietnam today may be the fact that people in the North who lost two or three or even seven children in the "American war," as they call it, will greet American tourists as long-lost friends. This gift for forgiveness and pragmatism is all the more impressive, David Lamb suggests in his humane and often moving account, Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns (PublicAffairs; 274 pages), when you recall that 1 in every 10 Vietnamese was wounded or killed in the war against America. If the U.S. had suffered a proportional number of casualties...
...starts, in the FlyLady method, with baby steps--small changes people can make in their life to manage C.H.A.O.S. (can't have anyone over syndrome). First step: shine the kitchen sink every day. Why? "I don't know why, but a beautiful sink to greet you each morning starts your day with a smile," says Cilley, who lives in Brevard, N.C., and chose the handle FlyLady because she likes to fly-fish. Second step: put on lace-up shoes in the morning, because you are much more likely to get things done when you are not lounging around in bunny...
...biggest surprise facing Americans who visit Vietnam today may be the fact that people in the North who lost two or three or even seven children in the "American war," as they call it, will greet American tourists as long-lost friends. This gift for forgiveness and pragmatism is all the more impressive, David Lamb suggests in his humane and often moving account, Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns (Public-Affairs; 274 pages), when you recall that 1 in every 10 Vietnamese was wounded or killed in the war against America. If the U.S. had suffered a proportional number of casualties...
...with a detailed map of the area. Almost immediately we found the villages of Saiq, Al Qisha and Al Shrijah. Here, adobe and stone houses are built into the hillsides, terraced orchards burst with apricots, pomegranates, olives and grapevines, and curious children come out to greet visitors. The real risk you take in the Jebel Akhdar is that you may never want to leave...
...responsive to their needs. But that population is also deeply angry at the PA for failing to protect them from the Israeli offensive. A planned visit by Arafat to the devastated Jenin refugee camp was called off Monday, for security reasons. Thousands of Palestinians had reportedly been waiting to greet him. But their mood was hard to gauge...