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...Trans-Siberian railroad shouldn't be this easy. Just allow two weeks in Pecking: After making a reservation at the China International Travel Service (CITS), report to the Russian Embassy to apply for a free transit visa. A week later, pick it up and present it to the Mongolian Embassy, which in a single day will grant you a transit visa for $2, payable only in U.S. dollars. (As a penalty for not recognizing the People's Republic of Mongolia, Americans pay double) Then return to CITS, where you can now buy your ticket...
...China, Board, and recognize cabinmases: Dan and Francine, the hand-holding couple asking directions to the Mongolian Embassy, and Eddy, the German with the bell on his pack at the Russian Embassy, Farewell champagne toasts on platform 7 a.m. departure, Great Wall. Noodle soup with Chinese scientist in the dining car. Talk about China; big cheer from English students as we leave. Chinese home movies at Er Lian station: "Peasant Tourist Makes Visit to Scenic Spot...
...Mongolia. Russian tanks, trucks; soldiers. Horsemen and gingerbread houses. Stand at window on, "yurt alert" (looking out for Mongolian round tents--yurts). Ulan Bator: Woman in traditional dress sees off granddaughter in cords with tape deck. Sunset across the grasslands...
...response to TIME'S question about the ability of animals to recover from a small population base, I noted the history of the northern elephant seal, which has grown from a population of about 20 to one of about 40,000, but not in captivity. Siberian tigers, Mongolian wild horses, Père David's deer and European bison are examples of animals that were originally found in small numbers and are now populous in zoos...
Americans feel a little sheepish about complaining, or they should. The cheap-jack bungalow on the wrong side of the beltway is still no Mongolian yurt, no tar-paper shack in one of Rio's mountainside favelas. It is not Soviet housing, with the five-year waiting list for a room of one's own, and couples sometimes stolidly enduring their marriages because there is no other apartment (no other bed, even) to escape to. It is not like the arrangements in dense Hong Kong, as busily transient as an ant colony, or Tokyo, where much middle-class...