Word: java
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...modern-day visitor to the thousand-year-old temple complex of Prambanan in central Java may be surprised by sculptures with a familiar face or, rather, a familiar smile. And suddenly comes the revelation: the slightly bemused yet severely serene expression on every face of the antique gods of Java, the heart of what has become Indonesia, was perfected by a 20th century general who would rule the country for more than 30 years, as if he himself were a god with the right to parcel out prosperity and peace, a heaven-sent arbiter of life and death. Even after...
...After that, take the tram all the way to North Point. On the third floor of the market at 99 Java Road you'll find the Tung Po seafood restaurant, tel: (852) 2880 9399. Ask for the owner Robby, or his partner Larry. Tell him you would like to order dishes Frank likes to eat. When you've finished dinner, take a cab back to the SoHo ("South of Hollywood Road") district, and go to the funkiest bar in Hong Kong, Feather Boa, tel: (852) 2857 2586. The place is always crowded and you will most likely have to elbow...
...sidekicks are shopping online--but they have no intention of paying. Though the rest of the world calls it credit-card fraud, the youths here have given it a more innocent name: "carding." Thousands of young Indonesians, particularly in college towns like Bandung and Yogyakarta (in central Java), have turned to the practice for fun and profit. At least 20% of Internet credit-card transactions in Indonesia are fraudulent, according to a recent study by the online-security company ClearCommerce, based in Austin, Texas, which has identified Indonesia as one of the worst countries for cyberfraud...
...trick is not to identify themselves as Indonesian. The credit cards they use are usually from other countries. When a carder provides the shipping information, he makes up a name and street address, leaving off his country's name and asking instead that the merchandise be sent to "Java West, India" or "Bound Dungs, Australia." The carder's hope is that the helpful postal workers of India or Australia will conclude that someone made a mistake and then send the parcel on to Indonesia. "I think the postal services in those countries are really trying to do a good...
...buzz died. From June to August I couldn’t read more than 30 pages of a book before I got bored or frustrated or distracted by another rerun of “America’s Next Top Model.” After all of that brain java, I needed something to settle my stomach (so to speak), and when I pulled my mother’s 1975 paperback edition of “The Portrait of a Lady” off the shelf, I knew I had found it. The language was pleasantly buffered, and as crunchy...