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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miss the Living Room, where you can see natural wonders including pine paneling, an entire forests' worth of local newspapers and shag carpeting dating back to the early 1980s. Also worth a visit are the Bedroom, which under most circumstances is far more comfortable than sleeping accommodations in more civilized countries, and the Kitchen where natives of Home often indulge in excessive culinary delights. Be aware that as a visitor, you will be expected to consume large amounts of local fare. Refusal to accept native cuisine will in many cases be considered a personal insult. (Note: The word "snack," common...
Students looking for something a little more upscale might visit their local Pho Pasteur for some Vietnamese cuisine. But at the local Dunster Street branch, several items chosen at random are more expensive than at the Washington Street location in Boston, Pasteur...
...TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. That explains Netanyahu's recalcitrance, and his contention that Israel's soldiers are going nowhere until Arafat also abandons plans to declare a Palestinian state in May. "In the zero-sum game that the peace process has become," Beyer says, "for Israel this visit has to be seen as a defeat." For Arafat, though, even a failed round of peace talks has rarely seemed so sweet...
...money, respect and attention for their 11-year-old organization, based in Washington. When Mittermeier is in barker mode, he makes the brashest p.r. rep seem shy; a good portion of our week together in Suriname has been devoted to the problem of how to get Michael Jordan to visit the country and draw attention to CI's conservation efforts...
...again, to fly farther south and east to the Maroon Saramaccan village of Asindopo in the region of the Upper Suriname River. Asindopo means "sit down and hope"--a welcome thought to its original settlers, runaway slaves from Dutch plantations in the 18th century. We go by corjal to visit their descendants. Some are swimming; some are washing clothes in the river; some are staring at us. The faces of the children are a cross between innocence and gravity. On a far bank, a glorious ceiba rises to the sky. It is called the "house of the spirits...