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...when, from the wrong end / of a foundering argument, it at last lets go.” Of a white egret walking in the white foam of the sea, in “Gold on Parchment,” Phillips observes that “invisibility seemed a thing worth / envying”. At other times, the beauty in Phillips images comes from his startling perversion of natural imagery. The most prominent example is in “Distortion,” where he relates the aging of peonies to “rough...
...globe where non-state actors control territory: with the Zapatistas in Mexico, the FARC in Colombia, and the Maoists in Nepal. Although the groups may be condemned terrorists, there comes a point when one wonders whether adopting absolutist “us vs. them” rhetoric is worth...
...some countries - like Egypt's impulsive move to cull some 300,000 pigs and China's apparent decision to preemptively quarantine hundreds of Mexican nationals - smack of panic. In the U.S., too, hundreds of schools have temporarily closed down because of suspected or confirmed swine flu cases, with Fort Worth, Texas, making the decision to shut down all city schools until May 11 at the earliest. Several countries have canceled all flights to and from Mexico, and some airlines are cutting way back on flights to the country. If it does indeed turn out that H1N1 is just the normal...
...Some Caribbean resorts have cut prices in half, while Elite Island Resorts - the second-largest independent hospitality group in the region - will even accept guests' depressed stocks as payment; the firm values stocks at their closing price at the end of last October (way above what most stocks are worth now) and says it will sell them when the markets eventually go up again. "We're hoping that these deals will never have to see the light of day again," says Hugh Riley, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, the body representing the travel interests of 32 nations...
Boosting tourism, however, isn't merely about attracting foreign visitors: governments are also courting their own citizens. In China, local authorities have distributed domestic-travel coupons nationwide. In Wuhan, a city along the Yangtze River in central China, $146,000 worth of coupons were snatched up within 10 minutes at a promotional event, and the city has pledged more vouchers totalling $73 million. In Britain, it's estimated that 5 million more citizens will choose a "staycation" in the British Isles this year, rather than venturing to the pricey eurozone...