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...wasn't the most auspicious coming-out party. The 29-year-old mystery man who tried to slip into Japan on a fake Dominican Republic passport last week turned out to be none other than the eldest son of North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Outside of North Korea, no one has seen much of Kim Jong Nam or even knows much about him, so his surprising arrival caused quite a stir. But for a man whose family and homeland provoke considerable gossip, speculation and fear, he came, he said, for the most prosaic of reasons: he wanted...
...only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, is a rich, rewarding read. The Legion takes recruits from all over the world, subjects them to grueling training in some of the bleakest spots on earth and spits them out, five years later, with a French passport and a new identity. In Tomorrow to Be Brave, Travers recounts her service with the Free France Legionnaires in North Africa during World War II (the other half of the Legion remained loyal to the Vichy government). She takes the reader on an unforgettable voyage as she discovers her two great passions...
...list of eight potential cross-border sites, covering up to 200,000 sq km in 10 southern African countries. A Peace Parks development program was also set up to help local communities manage their natural resources and develop ecotourism. The task involved getting sovereign countries to coordinate passport and customs controls, poaching laws, fencing and road-building plans. "The logistical challenges are enormous," says Peace Parks executive director Willem van Riet, "but so are the rewards. We are looking at the frontiers of a genuine African renaissance...
...over a lunch of Confederate fried steak in Columbia, S.C., that I realized something crucial about North and South. A passport ought to be required to travel from one to the other. Despite decades of economic and cultural homogenization, the regions remain as different as basketball and NASCAR. That thought occurred when my lunch partner, a man named Chris Sullivan, told me this: "To say the War Between the States was about slavery is like saying the Revolutionary War was about tea." And he meant it, sure as the pear trees bloom in sun-washed Columbia, the South is rising...
...another planet. Menacingly titled “The Small Boys’ Unit,” Johnson writes of trying to reach and interview Charles Taylor, one of Liberia’s leaders. He gets stuck on buses that sometimes decide not to go anywhere. He gets his passport only mistakenly stamped, and nearly sends his guide to jail by accident. He is arrested countless times, at least once without realizing he is under arrest for several days. He is transported by a magical displaced Italian who has “not much more than the tendons and skin...