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...landscape harnessed for productivity but appearing unspoiled and serene. The Ifugao built terraces from the edges of their villages into the hills, ensuring their tiny settlements would never grow. The only way to reach Batad is on foot, a steep, two-and-a-half hour hike from Bangaan on narrow paddy walls, a tough walk in which beauty and effort compete to take away your breath...
...Last Wednesday night on the final day of the census India's homeless were counted. In the narrow, crowded backstreets of old Delhi the enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still...
...callow bowler in the opposing XI, what would it have been like to confront this Bradman? His entry onto the ground was an amble, which some interpreted as him basking in the applause. In fact, he was allowing his blue eyes to adjust to the sunlight. From narrow shoulders hung muscular arms; this was the result of nothing except overuse of a bat. More striking was his unmistakable half-smile, reflecting both supreme self-confidence and pleasure. "I couldn't wait to bat," he said. "The bigger the occasion, the tenser the atmosphere, the more I liked the game...
...would be too great a shift, some movement needs to be made in this direction. Only then can Americans become better educated about the events which are daily shaping their nation. Residents of what is supposedly the greatest nation in the world should care about more than their own narrow, regional interests...
...This can happen in any town in America if it can happen in Santee. We are America," Mayor Randy Voepel said Monday. Like much of eastern and northern San Diego County, Santee has an "all-American" feel in a narrow '50s sort of way: good high school football, cowboy boots, lots of trucks and lots of white people. (According to the 2000 census, fewer than 10,000 of the city's 58,342 residents are not white.) A ranching area turned bedroom community through modest white flight, Santee is a conservative haven where the sight of an old-time...