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Last year, on her first trip to the U.S., Rachel Sabag, an Israeli, went to the predictable tourist spots--San Francisco, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. On Oct. 1, 2001, she visited America again--this time to experience the magic of Findlay, Ohio. Sabag, 25, her boyfriend and nine other young Israelis moved into a Findlay apartment complex (45 miles south of Toledo) and signed a six-month lease, but they didn't get to stay long. On Oct. 31 Rachel and her comrades were taken into custody by three dozen federal agents, even though as Israeli Jews they...
...When will you go back? A: When I can perform as a free musician in Afghanistan, I will go?not as a tourist but to live...
...monitoring mission on the eve of excavations of suspected mass graves. Inspectors later found human remains thought to belong to six of 12 Macedonian civilians who disappeared during a rebellion by ethnic Albanians in July. GREECE Holiday Snaps A hobby practiced by a group of British and Dutch tourists in Greece grew into a diplomatic incident after they were arrested and charged with espionage. Lawyers said 14 aviation enthusiasts, or "plane spotters," would be charged with offenses that carry a maximum 20-year jail sentence, including taking photographs and recording information from restricted military bases. British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...tenets of Buddhism with ancient combat techniques has earned it renown as the symbolic birthplace of Chinese martial arts. Just ask the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: it thought Yan Ming should register his hands as lethal weapons when he applied for a green card. Just ask the Henan Tourist Bureau: it put Yan Ming on a billboard of provincial treasures. Or ask Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, John Woo and Chow Yun-fat: they all call Yan Ming shifu, or master. Just don't ask the abbot of the Shaolin Temple; he "prefers not to talk about Yan Ming...
...Shaolin is now one of China's most popular tourist destinations and impoverished Henan's most reliable cash cow. The temple drew more than a million visitors last year. For $5 they get a tour of the spruced-up shrine with a local guide well-versed in its elaborately embroidered history. Picturesquely decrepit old-timers man donation boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk...