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...bumpy ride. Luckily, there's a new generation of travel gadgets designed to ease your passage in style and comfort. Case in point: the Travel Brush Kit, above, from Michael Marcus Cosmetics ($95). It packs eight sable makeup brushes into a compact just slightly thicker than a passport...
...Locke is a journalist covering a conflict in an unnamed Northern African nation. Bored with his work as he is with his life, he finds an unexpected boon in the death of his neighbor at his tiny hotel. Banking on his striking resemblance to the late Brit, he swaps passport pictures and sets off into his new life. Unfortunately for his peace of mind, his new persona was a gun-runner to the guerillas in the selfsame country he was investigating. The deceased’s appointment book in hand, he follows up on the meetings planned, taking money...
...GRANTED. To ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, scandal-tainted former Peruvian President; a Peruvian passport, opening the possibility of a return to his native country for the first time since 2000; in Tokyo. Fujimori's diplomatic passport was invalidated after he fled to Japan following the disintegration of his government in 2000 over allegations of corruption. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, Fujimori has said he plans to return and run in the country's April election, although Peru's Congress has banned him from public office until...
...which in my opinion was just insane. I just can't imagine it. One of the themes in the book is that journalists are just as much targets as anybody else now. After Danny Pearl's horrible experience in Pakistan, as a white journalist with a British or American passport, you can fully expect to be paraded on TV and possibly killed on video, and have it circulated around the Internet. Journalists are seen as legitimate targets by the enemy. Logically, you can see why. If you're an insurgent, you have no army, and you're trying to cause...
...Zealand, swelling the ranks of the estimated 115,000 of their countrymen - two out of five Samoans - who live there. Sima Urale is one of them. To identify herself at the airport meeting, "from a million islanders flying out and arriving that same day," she's sent through a passport photo of herself - though when she turns up, hair cascading over a tracksuit top and jeans, there's no mistaking her unbridled energy. In 1974, when Urale was five, her parents moved the family from their small village of Fagamalo to Wellington, in search of a better education for their...