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...more than a minute we hear nothing but menacing footfalls, a fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet?s flushing suggested waves breaking against the prison walls. Welles had used the same trick in "Les Mis?rables...
...biodiversity. Their $11-a-night hotel in San Cristobal de las Casas was spartan; little time was left for escapes to the colorful artisan markets and baroque churches of the 16th century city. On an overnight visit to Nuevo Yibeljoj, an impoverished community of displaced Zapatista sympathizers, the visitors lay their sleeping bags on bare planks, fought off mosquitoes and fleas and urinated behind bushes rather than face a stinking outhouse...
...lake lay under low gray clouds, emunctory thunder rolling in the distance and the water agitated to a nice "muskie chop," as the judge calls it - good fishing weather. The judge - Judge David H. Brind of Geneva, New York, my father-in-law - pointed the boat S-SW toward the point of Sheer Rock Island. This is the fortieth year that the judge has come to fish for muskies in Elephant Lake; he knows every weedbed and rock, and almost every muskie by name...
...lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly it's over: the men lay their weapons before Kumar and bow to him, touching the feet of their master...
...took a good five minutes for Li Changcheng and his wife to locate Mombasa in an atlas. Once they found it, the pair stared at the unprepossessing dot, trying to imagine the riches that lay on Africa's east coast. Six centuries earlier, Admiral Zheng He, with only the barest outline as a guide, did the same, only his imperial fleet was sailing to a mighty sultanate, at the peak of its power, not a faded port crumbling into the sea. Yet, despite the paint peeling from its once majestic, oceanfront villas, Mombasa and the surrounding strip of coastline still...