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...Decrepit. The International Arrivals Building at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport was so rundown by the 1990s that arriving passengers, not a few of them escaping wretched Third World environments, probably wondered if they had made some cosmic mistake. The IAB was the crown jewel of jet-set travel when it opened in what was then Idlewild Airport in 1957, but three decades later, the country's most important global gateway was one of the worst. Experienced flyers preferred Newark. In New Jersey...
...office success of Chinese kung-fu movies has in turn revived kalarippayat. Indian filmmakers, hoping to mimic the high-kicking fights and gravity-defying leaps in Jet Li's Romeo Must Die and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, are hiring kalarippayat fighters and teachers like Kumar as stuntmen. They're even making sure Bollywood stars have basic training. "Even five years ago, Kerala martial arts had nearly died out," says Kumar, who with his two brothers runs C.V.N. Kalari Sangham in Calicut, among the best known schools in the country. "Now suddenly it is popular again...
...land in Iquitos and check, O.K.?" And later: "Don't shoot! ¡No mas! ¡No mas!" An audiotape and State Department report released last week make clear that language barriers were a key factor in the mistaken shooting down of a U.S. plane by a Peruvian military jet in April, killing an American missionary, Veronica Bowers, and her daughter Charity. The CIA-contracted U.S. pilots, watching from a surveillance plane, repeatedly voiced concerns, but a Peruvian liaison official onboard, required to know English, did not understand. An intelligence official says the Peruvian had passed a required test in English...
...star of the people's republic wushu team at 11, a star of the mainland hit The Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just...
...Jet Li may have had fun in this Parisian romp, but you can bet his commercial instincts will send him back to the 'hood...