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...show's finest pieces is by Annette Lemieux, this year a visiting lecturer in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies department. "Decline," 1989, is a monumental, sepia-toned print of a pastoral scene. Recalling vintage travel posters, a snow-capped mountain ascends in the background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where...
...million people who will visit America's national parks this year. February's Sesame Street Parents magazine has done some of the homework for you--studying safety, quality and variety of attractions--and has come up with six top family-friendly parks: Acadia, Cape Hatteras, Crater Lake, Great Smoky Mountains, Rocky Mountain and Yosemite. Log on to www.sesame.org/parents/ and search the site for more vacation tips...
Last week the troops came out of the heart of Burma's darkness to engage in a century-against-century collision straight from Apocalypse Now. Ten of the young fighters wrapped their faces in black masks, left their home base on Kersay Doh, or "God's Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make...
...past three years, stories, rumors and superstition have swirled around the Htoo twins as mysteriously as the early morning mists that swathe the mountain forests where they live. Ka Mar Pa Law village lies on the side of a steep slope ringed with minefields, and the path is known only to local Karens who bring in supplies and a few visiting missionaries. There, in a huddle of thatched huts, the boys preside over an encampment with subsistence food, no electricity and little knowledge of the outside world. God's Army shuns strangers and mostly wants to be left alone...
...outsiders have climbed God's Mountain. An A.P. Television News crew, invited in last December, found that most of the soldiers surrounding the twins were barely in their teens. The reality of war seemed to be beyond their grasp. The twins played with guns as if they were toys: after Johnny fired some shots, another boy put a papaya on his head as if vamping a part in William Tell. The twins said they had lost count of how many Burmese they had killed. Said Luther, the more serious of the two, to the A.P. crew: "I have never cried...