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...more traditional travel book, Josh Neufeld's "A Few Perfect Hours" (self-published; 128 pages; $13) collects the author's memoirs of his time spent in Southeast Asia and central Europe. Owing to each chapter's original appearance in various publications, the book reads like a series of episodes rather than cohesive journey, but Neufeld picks his moments well. In each he discovers something about the world or himself that, if it doesn't actually broaden him, at least gives him pause. For example, the opening, titular chapter features Neufeld and his girlfriend, Sari, arriving in Bangkok after a miserable...
...over. Even as Ivan's tattered remnants saturated the Southeast with flooding rains, Jeanne was menacing the Dominican Republic, and a storm called Karl was gathering force in the Atlantic. NOAA's hurricane hunters are not going to get much rest just yet, it seems, and they may not until Nov. 30, when the all-too-memorable 2004 hurricane season finally recedes into history. With reporting by Ruth Laney/Baton Rouge, Tim Padgett/Miami, Michael Peltier/Tallahassee and Frank Sikora/Birmingham...
...right." American pressure groups-some made up of Lao who resettled in the U.S. after the war, some including former U.S. CIA operatives who assisted the Hmong-are likely to use the tape as evidence that allies of the U.S. have been left behind in the jungles of Southeast Asia, victims of a regime that sees them as armed bandits. And so-in a summer marked by memories of veterans of the swift-boat campaigns in the Mekong Delta and protests by the Montagnards in Vietnam itself-the Vietnam War, that suppurating sore that never heals, will ooze one more...
...nation in Southeast Asia offers the storyteller richer material than the Philippines; certainly few places need more explaining. Superficially, the country appears to be the most Westernized in Asia, after centuries of Spanish colonialism and a formative interlude as an American dependency. Yet its soul is rooted in a panoply of ancient cultural traditions and magic religions as fabulous as any in the region...
...intensity of such sentiments varies, reflecting the diversity of the Islamic world. Only 18% of the world's Muslims are ethnic Arabs. In Southeast Asian countries with sizable Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, radical Islam does not command a wide following. In both Indonesia and Malaysia, Islamic fundamentalist parties have lost political support in recent elections. But a U.S. State Department report on global terrorism warned last year that Muslim communities in the region are vulnerable to the "radical influences" of extremists because of the substantial financing that Islamic schools and mosques continue to receive from...