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Other pieces of Expo have altogether different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The...
Sparsely populated, landlocked and laced with the deserts, mountains and rugged wilderness regions typical of the American West, Utah is an unlikely place to find people who collectively speak 90% of the world's written languages. "I can make one phone call and get a foreign-language speaker in 30...
The blue helmets must also verify the removal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. Just how many might remain is hotly contested, but the Khmer Rouge, eager to see even indigenous ethnic Vietnamese expelled, are likely to press the issue. As the U.N. troops search for foreign forces, they are...
Across the rugged mountains and valleys of northern Iraq, the rubble is coming to life. Almost 2,000 Kurdish villages that Saddam Hussein's forces systematically dynamited and bulldozed are inhabited again. Tents and lean-tos dot the snowy slopes, shattered walls support makeshift plastic roofs, and open-air bazaars...
Then Antwan got his first break. A juvenile-services worker sat down beside him. "Are you sorry for what you've done this evening?" he asked the boy. "Yes," mumbled Antwan. "Have you learned a lesson?" he asked. Another soft yes. Alongside the boy stood his mother Syrita, 30, an...