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...Cambodia's economy may have grown 10.4% last year, fueled by an influx of Chinese investment and strong clothing exports, but the country is still heavily dependent on agriculture - more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents...
...influx of American troops into Baghdad has significantly lowered the level of violence in Ghazaliya, one of the Iraqi capital's most dangerous neighborhoods. But Ghazaliya highlights both the promise and the limitations of the troop surge. Residents are relieved to have the Americans around for now, but they have little faith in the Iraqi soldiers who will eventually replace them...
...Nevertheless, the always hospitable Ethiopians are counting on foreigners to join their millennium party. My Ethiopian guide in the town of Bahir Dar, near the source of the Blue Nile, told me that several new hotels are being built in anticipation of a (local) year 2000 tourist influx. "I have heard that 50,000 people will come here for the millennium," he confided. But given that the best hotel currently in Bahir Dar (sister city: Cleveland, Ohio) is a state-run guesthouse whose moldy rooms and surly plumbing aspire to one-star status, it's doubtful that the new concrete...
...recent years. Some, such as Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed millions of travelers away from India's sluggish train and bus networks-and into its sluggish airports, which lack sufficient gates, baggage-handling equipment and other facilities to manage the influx. The crunch at New Delhi's airport is so bad that India's Aviation Ministry is refusing to allow an increase in departures this summer despite pleading from airlines...
...producer, of course, wants his or her musical pigeonholed as a young-girl show; niche audiences don't make hits. Yet the influx of young theatergoers to shows like Wicked is a trend producers can't afford to ignore. "We've talked about how we lost a generation who didn't think it was cool to go to the theater," says Wicked's Stone. "A lot of us have started to get that audience back. Younger people are coming back to the theater--and yet older people aren't leaving...