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Springtime is a festive season in Egypt, especially in Dahab, a laid-back Red Sea resort famous for its scuba divers and hippies. But terrorists broke up the party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves. The Dahab attacks - the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months - came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders...
Springtime is a festive season in Egypt, especially in Dahab, a laid-back Red Sea resort famous for its scuba divers and hippies. But terrorists crashed the party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves...
...West and the Arab world. There is no other place where Israelis and Arabs forget their animosities and party together so heartily. Dahab is also a magnet for skin divers and backpacking bohemians, who are variously drawn to its famous coral reefs, gorgeous desert moonscapes and hashish-induced laid-back vibe...
...That wasn't always so. Conventional wisdom has long held that Vietnam's communist north may have won the war 30 years ago, but the capitalist-friendly south won the peace. If you wanted to sip lattes by a lake or meet government bureaucrats, laid-back Hanoi was the place to be. Those serious about making money went to Ho Chi Minh City, with its bustling boulevards and entrepreneurial business culture. As recently as three years ago, Ho Chi Minh City (still informally called Saigon) took in 30% of the country's foreign direct investment (FDI) and generated...
...under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple.” Wong makes posters as a way to relax—and, occasionally, to suggest that others do the same. During reading period last spring she posted colorful signs in the Yard with...