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...While Phuket trembled in fear, the small island of Nias, a surfing mecca off the western coast of Sumatra, was shaken to the ground by an earthquake that registered 8.7 on the Richter scale. Unlike the quake that struck in December, this one did not create a devastating tsunami. But in Nias, just 70 km from the epicenter, death and destruction were instantaneous. "Everything happened so fast," says Nasima Zai, 42, a shopkeeper in Gunung Sitoli, Nias' largest town. Nasima was in bed when her house started to shake. She woke her husband, grabbed their two young children, and tried...
...South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism...
...South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism. Originally conceived by publisher Kim Eoun Ho as a "book village" similar to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Heyri has evolved to embrace the whole gamut of the arts since its reinvention began in 2001. Today, more than 70 artists, musicians, writers and cineasts - including director Park...
...March 3 when al-Banna's brother Ahmed received a call on his cell phone from a man identifying himself as "one of your brothers from the Arab peninsula"--the term radical Islamists use to signify the core of the Muslim world, centered on the holy city of Mecca. Al-Banna's family says that as far as they knew, Ra'ed was in Saudi Arabia working at a new job. But the voice on the other end sounded Iraqi, Ahmed says. "Congratulations," the caller told him. "Your brother has fallen a martyr...
With its kilometers of flashing neon and monster casinos that look like billion-dollar monuments to kitsch, the Las Vegas Strip might seem impossible?not to mention inadvisable?to replicate. But Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands and the city's richest developer, thinks America's gambling mecca is ripe for cloning. Last week he flew to Macau, the only place in China where casinos are legal, to unveil a glittering scale model of the Cotai Strip, a $12-15 billion development modeled on Las Vegas' famed stretch of luxury hotels and gaming dens...