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...role in protests against successive military governments in the 1970s and '80s, has been turned into a museum of horrors, a red-brick Grand Guignol of simulated torture chambers as chilling as Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh or Changi in Singapore. To visit is upsetting but essential if you're to see Korea the Ko Un way - that is, an experience of harmonious extremes, a bracing yin and yang of Buddhas and booze, temples and taverns and, if you've scored a visa to Pyongyang, visits to both sides of the 38th parallel...
...access to replacement limbs. (Healing Hands says much of its Port-au-Prince clinic was severely damaged in the temblor.) Most previous amputees were like Verly Boulevard, 31, who lost a leg in a car crash and has spent years hobbling on crutches, unemployed. "In Haiti, if you're an amputee you don't exist," says Boulevard as he waits for water at a crowded and squalid tent camp in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétionville. "It will be difficult to change that, even after the earthquake...
...sits about 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver, added to the course's difficulty. "It's challenging because the snow is so slushy," said Simona Meiler from Switzerland, who fell twice during her first qualification run and got a fat, bloody lip. "It's hard to keep your balance. You're not allowed to make any mistakes." (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...economy means he won't be able to find new work anytime soon. "In Greece, there are no jobs, so there's no economic crisis," he jokes. Avdelas is getting a generous severance package from the state, but to survive, the family is also cutting back on luxuries. "We're trying to spend less. We try to eat at home instead of in restaurants," he says. Weekly trips to the movies are a thing of the past too. But like many older Greeks, Avdelas believes this period of austerity will soon pass. Tourists will return, drawn by the news...
...master's degree in special education from the U.K. But the only job she can find is temporary, part-time work. In a good month, she makes $400. "My father helps support me," she said during a civil-servant protest against the austerity measures on Feb. 10. "We're already exploited by the state. We can't live on what they give us. How can they expect us to pay more...