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...Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation's vagina. DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, golfing legend whose career spanned five decades; in Hot Springs, Virginia. With seven major championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead was considered...
...they can be persuaded to grant great favors. The place to appease them is an extinct volcano called Mount Popa, at the foot of which a stone sentinel stands guard. A massive pillar of rock riddled with meditation cells and capped with pale green and gold temples, the 737-m-high Popa Daung Kalat, or Popa Crest, shelters 37 of Burma's most powerful nats...
...perhaps the best single attraction may be found in more modern times: Italy's National Museum of Cinema. Located inside the Mole Antonelliana - a 167.5-m-high, architecturally eclectic tower that is the symbol of Turin - offers a memorable winding tour up the circular walkway where visitors can see film clips, original screenplay sheets, rare posters and otherwise entertaining snapshots of more than a century of cinematic history. The museum is worth an entire afternoon. For a singular view of the city and the surrounding mountains, take the elevator...
...Yoshihiro Matsumoto knows that sinking feeling. It comes over him like a bad hangover every morning at 5 o'clock when he and his wife head out to a large, chilly warehouse next door. He climbs up a loft, pulls out a 2-m-high bundle of blue-green straw called igusa, carries it downstairs and dumps it in the hopper of a weaving machine where it will be made into tatami mats. The Matsumotos have worked in Kagami, on the southern island of Kyushu, for three generations; it was igusa that turned a poor country backwater into a modern...
...haven within a haven, 1,600-m-high Sapa, the express's northern destination, couldn't be more ideal. A former French-colonial hill station near the northern border with China, it has in recent years gone from a nearly forgotten outpost to a popular weekend getaway, partly due to the success of the luxury train. But Sapa still has almost no nightlife and hasn't even gotten around to assigning names to its streets. Surrounded by mountains, bamboo forests and dramatic rice terraces, the town is just as enticing as the journey?if you can tear yourself away from...