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...gregarious lecturer, fresh off the submarine, chats about water feed supply pumping while reminiscing about his latest eight-month stint under water. During announcements, he reminds the class about their upcoming 6 a.m. lab. Groans fill the room, which is wallpapered in maps of international hot spots, like China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East...
...Alex Garland, Leo reinvents himself as Richard, a dissatisfied, disillusioned Gen-Xer, traversing the world in search of a "genuine" experience. Genuine in this case excludes anything remotely associated with the digital age; Richard seeks a reprieve from the desensitized, apathetic, commercialized world, and decides that a romp through Southeast Asia will do just the trick...
...circulate in various quarters. Let's Go forbids such behavior in its offices, and in the past workers have been disciplined for violating those policies, according to Stone. "On the one hand, we're kids and we're carefree," explains Peter D. Richards '01, who edited Let's Go: Southeast Asia, "But on the other hand, we want to make money and sell books. Sometimes we want to think of ourselves as professionals...
...accuracy and usefulness are rooted in trips to "developed nations." Lonely Planet has put a lock on the more out-of-the-way destinations for American tourists. "We are the clear leader in Africa, New Zealand and South Pacific destinations," he declares. "We still pretty much rule in Southeast Asia," Kettunen says. In the travel book biz, Let's Go's push to expand its coverage has been duly noted, but Schubert says Let's Go's Asia and Middle East editions clearly lag behind the series' more established guidebooks...
...some 200 among a Burmese ethnic group, the Karen, which has long been in conflict with the Burmese government. The impish insurgents allegedly built their following by sneaking into a village controlled by the Burmese military and killing several soldiers. "There's nothing new about child warriors in Southeast Asia," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "A number of the region's insurgencies have been recruiting young boys for many years...