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Elsewhere, relief workers have found themselves caught up in civil wars that have been raging for years. In Sri Lanka, there were hopes for some kind of peace, however temporary, between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels who have waged a 21-year war for independence in the northern part of the country. Scores of displaced Tamil families taking refuge in a school in Kudathanai had gratefully accepted food and water brought by government soldiers. But when soldiers arrived with a specially cooked New Year's meal, refugees refused it on orders from a rebel. That night part...
...vanguard is Tiger Trails, tel: (61?3) 6234 3931, a tour company that offers guided walks through the Tarkine's interior. "Nature-based tourism is part of a new generation of thinking, offering another option for these forests where industry and conservation can work together," says Mike Thomas, a member of Tasmania's Doctors for Forests lobby group and designer of a spectacular Tiger Trails walk that takes trekkers though a Tarkine river gorge that is home to the forest's threatened myrtle trees...
...Once the official itinerary is done, Tiger Trails occasionally drives groups through areas of the Tarkine that have already been clear-cut and defoliated. The contrast could not be more horrifying. Its end may not come as quickly?or be as inevitable?as that of the aborigines who once roamed it, but the Tarkine is evidently fighting for its future. Every paying ecotourist is a foot soldier in the cause...
Ancient China, gorgeous outdoor settings, a surreal story line and a mysterious character played by Ziyi Zhang. The elements add up to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but they can also describe Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers, the latest in a series of increasingly pale imitations of Ang Lee’s breakthrough martial-arts ballet. Though Crouching Tiger is in itself part of a long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, it has inspired a new wave of iterations of the formula, none of which approach the prototype in terms of its poetically minimalist plot, beautiful...
House of Flying Daggers won’t be remembered as an outstanding film, but rather as the Crouching Tiger imitation it largely is. But though the film is hardly groundbreaking, it is still worth watching. Its themes and morals are a bit musty, but they’re still lofty, and evoke the greatness that Flying Daggers achieves best in its awe-inspiring visual bravado...