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ALAEA SEA SALT, HAWAII Once used only in religious rituals, this salt, the pink color of which Captain James Cook hated, has clay impurities. It's a bit harsh and lingers on the tongue...
...Rifai will doubtless toast what he hopes will be a Lawrence-inspired tourism renaissance. "The Lawrence myth has been rather underplayed in Jordan until now," he says. "We need more examples of people like him to broker stronger relations and mutual trust between East and West." But the harsh reality for the foot soldiers of Jordan's stalled tourist industry is that it will take more than the eulogized legacy of an eccentric British officer to bring visitors back. Especially if a U.S.-led military assault on Iraq goes ahead and opens what King Abdullah II has described...
...come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says. "I got to understand oppression, especially the kind that can open a door and say, 'Well, you can leave any time you like.' " Mullan's harsh depiction of life at the infamous Magdalenes, the last of which closed in 1996, has earned him not only plaudits but also the ire of the Catholic Church. Mullan, 42, who describes himself as a "once-idealistic Catholic," is unrepentant. Though its central characters are composites, he insists the film...
...employment. Although she is better educated than most Afghan women--as few as 5.6% are literate--Khatol's options under the fundamentalist regime became as narrow as those for many of Kabul's 30,000-plus other war widows. The Taliban's restrictions on its female population were infamously harsh: girls could not attend school; and women, except for some doctors and nurses, were prohibited from working. The mullahs further isolated women by forcing them to cover themselves head to toe in burqas and forbidding them to leave home without a male relative. Now Khatol has traded the burqa...
...relatively prosperous Malaysia have conducted campaigns to eject illegal workers, who typically fill menial jobs in industries like construction. But the scale and severity of the current crackdown is unprecedented. Scores of illegal immigrants have been arrested; some have been sentenced to caning and lengthy prison terms. The harsh treatment has ignited a political and diplomatic firestorm. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo phoned Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to make a personal appeal for a moratorium on deportations of Filipinos. Amien Rais, speaker of the Indonesian Parliament, warned that Malaysia was "playing with fire" by mistreating foreign workers...