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...escape, allowing her to act in plays in New Delhi. By 18, studying and performing at university in the Indian capital, Nair was applying to every U.S. college she could think of, already displaying the resolve and energy that would mark her life. Mamdani describes film as Nair's ideal medium. "Mira often says she left documentaries for fiction because she got tired of waiting for things to happen." The role of the headstrong itinerant is not without a price, however. Time and again, Nair returns on screen to themes of displacement and immigration, the ache of exile. "The parallels...
...three surf beaches, with bungalow accommodation, rental-board outlets, and sumptuous curry houses for postsurf refueling. There are five surf spots to choose from, but Beach Break, with its sandy bottom and consistent waves of up to 3 ft. high, not to mention idyllically warm water, is ideal for beginners. Surf season runs from November to April...
...Search of Paradise Your story "The Quest for Paradise" [July 26-Aug. 2], stated, "Paradise can be an ideal, a state of being, a discovery?a candle lit in the darkness." Asia has many paradisial spots of natural beauty, but when it comes to simple day-to-day survival, most of Asia is a living hell. Poverty, joblessness, political instability and corruption are the rule. Asia is no place to live. Ayesha Riaz Peshawar, Pakistan...
...years ago, "talent-selection officers" spotted Xu Jiamin, the now-12-year-old daughter of Guangdong farmers, and recruited her for her long legs, short torso and large hands?ideal attributes for a weight lifter. Xu had never heard of weight lifting when the scouts approached her, and she says her parents weren't sure a career lifting barbells was what they wanted for their little girl. But the officers impressed upon them that weight lifting could be Xu's ticket out of rural poverty. Besides, with Beijing 2008 coming up, Xu might one day represent her nation on home...
Bowman could see that Phelps was born to swim. Blessed with a sinewy, whiplike body, a long torso and large hands and feet, plus a 6ft. 7in. arm span that extends 3 in. beyond his height (the usual ratio is 1 to 1), Phelps has as close to an ideal swimming body as you can get. Like other top swimmers, he doesn't so much power through the water as slide along it, propelled by a vigorous dolphin kick that surges from his head to his toes in a high-amplitude wave...