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Today a few monuments still loom over Samarkand, overshadowing modern Soviet interlopers. From the immense ruin of Bibi-Khanym Mosque to Shah-I-Zinda's intimate alley of tombs and Tamerlane's resting place at Guri Amir Mausoleum, the city offers an imposing collection of intricately patterned towers, precise arches and azure domes. The Registan?a three-sided plaza of colossal mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread...
...profitable as Japanese tourists may prove to local economies, travel experts have a word of warning: since the Japanese travel market moves in concert, when a destination stops being the flavor of the month, disaster can loom. "In 1994, during the French nuclear tests in the Pacific, the Japanese ended all trips to Fiji, even though it was 1,000 miles away," says Pacific Asia Travel Association chief spokeswoman Lyn Hikida. "We advise people not to put all their eggs in one basket...
Even though the U.S. is "nowhere near as focused on Russia as we were on the Soviet Union," according to Woolsey, potential dangers still loom large. The biggest concern remains the Russian nuclear arsenal, which could still be lethal, especially if it falls into the wrong hands. But American national-security officials today also focus on terrorism, narcotics trafficking and other threats. Russia plays a direct or an indirect role in several of these areas, and the U.S. wants to keep tabs on what it's doing and what it knows...
...Africa was met with apathy," says Suzanne LeClerc-Madlala, a lecturer at the University of Natal. The consequences of the silence march on: infection soars, stigma hardens, denial hastens death, and the chasm between knowledge and behavior widens. The present disaster could be dwarfed by the woes that loom if Africa's epidemic rages on. The human losses could wreck the region's frail economies, break down civil societies and incite political instability...
...Crimson cannot overlook Cornell and Columbia if it is to compete for the Ivy League Championship, as conference powers Penn and Princeton loom just around the corner...