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...bright, chilly day in early November, a stretch of this humble road near the tiny hamlet of Chendebji bears witness to an unprecedented event: the shooting of Bhutan's first-ever homegrown feature film. Its writer and director, Khyentse Norbu, bundled against the wind in a thick, maroon turtleneck and pale lavender muffler, pulls his baseball cap low over his eyes and instructs the cameraman to focus on four actors by the side of the road. "Again," he says into a walkie-talkie, and a red tractor emerges from around the bend to collect two of the actors?one dressed...
...last five years. Now Tampa Bay has wiggled out of the undistinguished group of franchises that have never advanced to the Super Bowl: Arizona, Carolina, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Seattle. Considering only one of those teams, Cleveland, even made the playoffs this season, it's no stretch to say they'd all accept a similar deal...
Longshan's residents are not given to complaining, though they inhabit one of the world's most inhospitable corners. Here, in this frozen stretch of wasteland in Heilongjiang province on the Chinese side of Siberia, the scenery is so desolate that its most notable features are heaps of coal piled so high they look like mountains. Many of the townspeople are laid-off coal miners, hopelessly cut off from the fruits of China's heralded economic boom. Still, hardship has taught them not to gripe about their lot in life. "What pleasant weather we're having," says the local bathhouse...
...beginning of last year, however, part of the school had to be demolished because its foundation had become too unstable, and the walls of many houses had split. Finally, the locals determined to speak out, never figuring it would cost some of them their jobs and earn others a stretch in jail...
They make trips to and from the bathroom with toothbrushes in tow, check their e-mail and stretch. As the night goes on, they take brief naps sprawled across tables in study rooms...