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...enemy. American ships are just outside this port." And yet, on Iraq's side there is no deployment at all to protect this precious region which floats on a sea of oil, the key to Iraq's treasury. A few trenches have been dug through the desert, where sheep amble peacefully under the watchful eye of haughty Bedouin women. There are some soldiers, but hardly enough to defend the crucial oil fields that burn brightly on the horizon. Along the highway from Basra to Baghdad, the army posts have been freshly whitewashed but are poorly fortified: the walls...
...along Suzhou Creek, where artists have established a thriving colony. (Many of these warehouses will be demolished in coming months to make way for more space-efficient high-rises). Stop by the DDM Warehouse at 713 Dongda Ming Road, where the eclectic exhibits include real, albeit dead, cows and sheep inflated like giant beach balls and neatly planted rows of garlic that are presumably supposed to represent something deeper than, uh, neatly planted rows of garlic...
...fifth of 13 siblings, Amrozi was always something of a black sheep. At a televised press conference after his arrest last month, he told Indonesian national police chief Da'i Bachtiar that he was "a naughty person, sir--that's what my family always say about me." Unlike his brothers, most of whom graduated from religious schools, Amrozi never got beyond junior high and was best known for roaring through Tenggulun on one of his beloved motorbikes...
...known as the Western Ghats that stretches from Bombay to Kerala?has followed the sad but familiar tale of modern development. In the last decade man drowned many of the forests behind vast new dams, cut down what timber remained and hunted to extinction the wild deer, boar and sheep that are the leopards' preferred prey. In the time it took to fill a reservoir, the leopards of the Ghats found themselves in the open, homeless and hungry. You'd expect a few attacks from these desperate creatures. Then you'd expect them to disappear...
...careful to rebut the chief accusation made against his work: that it's frothy entertainment. "Many of my readers read my books three or four times, because my novels are easy to read," Murakami says. "But the stories are not easy to understand." In A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, for example, he examines complex issues, such as Japan's brutal colonialism in the first half of the 20th century, while also portraying his characters' struggles to reconcile their hopes and fears with the lives they lead. In any case, popularity doesn't shame him: "Some...