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...really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia. My experience is that people extrapolate it. If you write specifically enough, they extrapolate it to their hometown, wherever that is, even if it's Amsterdam. By the same token, if you don't write specifically enough and you have generic Anywhere U.S.A., then nobody feels anything. The whole bottom drops out of the story...
...water. We ate stir-fried veggies and tofu with a cabbage salad, sitting cross-legged on the floor. Through the slats, you could see the water a few feet below. The hospitality was free: Thomas brought our lunch and gave our hosts a case of beer as a token of friendship...
...Kalaloch Lodge can volunteer with the Clean Coast Alliance to clean up beaches. On Saturday, April 25, voluntourists staying at the Lake Quinault Lodge can help the National Park Service restore a cabin at Olympic National Park; that evening, the lodge will throw a barbecue as a token of its appreciation. Rates for April 17 and 18, at the Kalaloch Lodge, start at $99 per night, including a boxed lunch for two. On the second weekend, at Lake Quinault Lodge, room rates start at $109, including the BBQ. Additional nights can be tacked on for $89 a night...
...TIME magazine for over 30 years and a dedicated subscriber for almost as long. I wish to convey my outrage and disappointment at the minimal coverage of the Australian bushfires [Feb. 23]. Surely a natural disaster of this magnitude deserves more extensive coverage in the magazine than the token items in Briefing. Is the death of hundreds of Australians not newsworthy enough? Or do you simply not care? John Zic, Punchbowl, Australia...
...Trinidad - at which Cuba is the only disinvited nation - says he favors keeping the embargo largely in place until Cuba demonstrates political reform. But he also knows that opening up to the island is necessary to mending Washington's broken relations with Latin America in general. By the same token, Raúl, who has insisted on U.S. concessions on items like the embargo before he delivers his own, like releasing jailed dissidents, surely knows he'll have to give a little on his side to crack the embargo. The Cuban Taliban was certainly not the man for a diplomatic...