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Penang's snake temple has a problem. The deadly pit vipers that have made this Chinese Taoist temple their refuge since the 1850s have, according to a tourist brochure, "mysteriously" disappeared. "One day they just stopped coming," says the temple's custodian. We are standing at the back of the shrine where the view, which once stretched over the vipers' nesting grounds to the mountains beyond, is now blocked by a semiconductor plant. "Yes, it's a mystery," he says, with a wink and a nod toward the factory...
Popular Cambridge politician and former mayor Anthony D. Galluccio said yesterday that he intends to throw his hat into the upcoming race for state senate—a run that will pit him against well-known Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 as well as three candidates from abutting communities...
...population in the pit is dwarfed by the number of people who make pilgrimages each day to the area around it. It's now a regular stop on New York City tours, just like Chinatown or Times Square. Along the perimeter of the site, people call friends on their cell phones to record their visits. Every 10 ft. on Park Street, on the edge of the red zone, another immigrant vendor peddles N.Y.P.D. and F.D.N.Y. hats, T shirts and scarves. Credentials to the red zone have supplanted tickets to The Producers as the hottest status symbol in New York. Assistants...
...years on the throne, King Bhumibol has made the constitutional monarchy a moral counterpoint to the slime pit of Thai politics. Revered by his subjects as semidivine and for his work among the poor, he intervenes in politics only during times of crisis?most notably ending the bloodshed of the May 1992 democracy uprising. He prefers giving advice to Premiers in private. So, as Thaksin and his ministers sat in the Dusidalai Throne Hall awaiting the King's annual birthday address to the nation, they were expecting the usual sermon on development peppered with parables and gentle jibes. Instead, Bhumibol...
...can’t believe Gossip Guy knew about the time I took the homeless, cracked-out pit girl home! Verily, he is All-Seeing, All-Knowing...