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...design is my true love,” she says. “I was always the nerdy little kid who liked to design houses in her spare time...
...some of his earlier films, he insists on taking me to a cinema in the heart of the city to watch the films on the big screen. As we pick our way through the Trivandrum traffic in his boxy Honda, chasing down a couple of spare prints, Adoor decries "the bankruptcy of mainstream Indian cinema"; he quite proudly states that he almost never watches popular Indian films - except occasionally on TV, where "the commercials actually come as a welcome relief." Adoor's own preferences still run toward the aging European masters who first inspired him. Later...
...possible SARS symptoms to self-quarantine, as did Canada's Ontario province, the government has instead decided to focus on promoting public hygiene. In this, at least, Hong Kong's beleaguered leaders have succeeded. Public spitting has reduced, malls smell like hospitals and Hong Kongers carry alcohol swabs like spare change. "My hands are peeling from washing them so much," says Dr. Tam Lai-shan, who treats SARS patients at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Kong keeps a bucket of the Health Department-advocated 1:99 bleach-and-water solution handy. Before heading indoors, she wipes down her shoes, clothes...
...Badriah, the explosions had been confirmation of her worst fears. At the start of the war, the schoolteacher had taken her family to their ancestral home in Diyala province, hoping to spare her aged mother the trauma of the bombing. When they returned, three days after the fall of Baghdad, she found the mounds of ordnance along the canal. Even closer to home, there were clusters of artillery shells on a patch of gravel at the back of her modest two-story brick and concrete home. "We thought the war was over and we would be safe," she said...
...militia are gone from Zubayr, but Dr. Hussein is apprehensive about a breakdown in security in the town. "It is very unsafe," he says. "There is no police force, no administrative apparatus of any kind." The British have instituted a 7 p.m. curfew but have few spare troops to patrol the streets. During the day, the town appears to be getting back to normal, with foodstuffs appearing in the market. But normality has its limits...