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...quite sure what it does, but in Sydney right now APEC is impossible to ignore. For its sake guards patrol the Harbour Bridge, dummy motorcades race through the streets, zoo animals are being moved to an island in the harbor so VIP wives can view them in peace, and a 3-m-high wall is going up around the Opera House. Even Sydneysiders who've missed the preparations know that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Leaders' Week, which runs from Sept. 2-9, will be giving them a public holiday. It's the biggest event the country has held...
...Fresh Breeze in Gaza How refreshing and indeed surprising to read Andrew Lee Butters' report "A Sort of Peace in Gaza" [Aug. 20]. For far too long, we in the Western world have been fed a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which Israel is portrayed as the victim of Palestinian obstinance and aggression without any questioning why Palestinians are so aggrieved. Those who cared to look beyond the rhetoric of U.S. and Israeli policy and familiarize themselves with the appalling injustice that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 60 years could not fail...
...view a photo essay illustrating the devastation in Greece, click here
Wildlife and rural life are already on the retreat, though, in places like Minturn, tucked under sharp cliffs at an ear-popping altitude of 7,800 ft. Developers, second-home builders and fast-money types view the old ranching-and-mining community of 1,200 as the next Vail or Jackson Hole with a more down-home bent. Main Street is torn between past and future: tin-roofed bungalows abut spanking new commercial buildings, and Volvos and BMWs with out-of-state plates honk at stray dogs...
...work.' And at that moment, I disappointed my dad. It felt like falling apart, my self losing coherence. Imagine a sand castle with all the sand sliding away in the receding surf. So in the end, there's no center to take things in and process them and view the world. That was the first kind of scary, weird thing. Even more alarming, when I was 16 or 17, I suddenly, having just read Sylvia Plath and identifying with her, got up in the middle of the day [at school] and started walking home several miles away, something...