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...want to widen your dance repertoire beyond salsa and tango, there's always hula. Long before Captain James Cook arrived on the island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, pictured, are intended to symbolize the integration...
...hope that the Island Kingdom of Britain will maintain its royals forever. After all, stories of Kings and Queens have fired the imagination of generations of young children whose loving parents call them princes and princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With no Kings and Queens, princes and princesses, fairy tales will die. Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury Calcutta...
...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...issued a blank check to its military for the use of force against Taiwan." CHIU TAI-SHAN, Vice Chair of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, on China's proposed antisecession law that in certain circumstances authorizes "nonpeaceful means" of dealing with the island, considered a renegade province by China...
...Hydro power schemes generate 60% of the country's electricity. Why not build more? Meridian Energy knows. Last year it abandoned a $NZ1.2 billion, 500-megawatt project on the South Island's Waitaki river, saying it was not sure it would get the necessary environmental consents or water rights. New Zealand needs a new power project of that size every three years, says Leyland. But even small hydro schemes like the one on the Gowan river, or another on the nearby Wairau, raise hackles. "A lot of rivers will potentially be ruined," says Lawson Davey, of the Save the Wairau...