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WEST COAST, New Zealand—It was almost midnight and I started to doubt the directions I got from the man in the pub. There were no stars, and in my car, I was enveloped in total darkness except for the small patch of road illuminated by my headlights. My rear-view mirror led to an empty black void as if the back half of my car had all of a sudden merged with the night. There are good reasons for driving alone at this hour. But attempting to locate a cell phone signal that may not even exist...
Looking to party in the Tasmanian capital? You're in luck. One of Hobart's best-known landmarks and drinking establishments is being renovated-completing a metamorphosis from 19th century brothel to 20th century blue-collar pub to 21st century techno palace...
...cool dance club. Despite its compactness (it holds only about 300 bopping bodies), it has hosted superstar DJs like the U.K.'s Adam Freeland and James Holden-guys used to playing to crowds of 20,000, but who still find time to travel down to Tassie's little ol' pub on the wharf. Now you have every excuse to do the same...
...hometown has to offer in this election, just as Arkansas and Texas contributed their stories of Slick Willie and Dubya. The conversation about Kerry in the restaurants and backyards around Boston is laced with disappointment in a man who has always preferred the national stage to the neighborhood pub. "People here like talkers. You go to any bar in the city, and it's full of b.s. artists," says Joe Keohane, editor of the Weekly Dig, an alternative newspaper in Boston. "I don't think he ever mastered the political dialect." Many people say they voted for Kerry...
...local pastoral industry, it's been a problem getting people to stay. "People start drifting away," she says. "And you don't want to drag them back unless they've got employment. That's the biggest issue with the centralization of all these small towns." Apart from a pub, police station and school that service a largely Aboriginal population, there are few jobs. "I've lived here all my life, so it's not so good," says beanie-wearing Ronald Hogarth, 50. "Well, the pub's good." Elder Lorraine Williams, 48, calls it "a sleepy little town" whose main store...