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...told my boss about my holiday-trekking plans, he grimaced and proclaimed, "It's so dirty." When I informed my friends that I was going to spend 15 days hiking 300 kilometers around one of the Himalaya's most iconic mountain massifs, they told me I was "hard-core." They were all wrong: I discovered that hiking Nepal's Annapurna circuit is almost luxurious?and you can do it alone...
...leisurely lunch. By the fourth day I was hiking only three hours to better adjust to the 3,000-m-plus altitude. I spent my afternoons lounging in the sun with a pot of tea and a book or visiting nearby hot springs with a cold beer. Hard-core? Hardly. I was getting more rest on my two-and-a-half-week holiday here than from the last six vacations combined...
...Twelve months is a good long time to breathe easier, but Sri Lanka isn't out of the jungle yet. After five rounds of highly productive peace talks?in which the LTTE formally abandoned its goal of secession?the two sides are only now facing the core issues that will make or break a deal, including a rewriting of the Sri Lankan constitution and the delicate issue of when and how the fanatical Tigers will hang up their suicide suits, dispose of their cyanide capsules and surrender their guns. As a result, Sri Lankans are living in unaccustomed security...
...Dante Club] proves the vitality of the Divine Comedy not only in Cambridge 140 years ago, but today as well,” he says. “The issues of justice and truth that are at the core of Dante’s great poem and inspire the Dante Club, are as relevant today as they were in both 1300 Florence and 1865 Cambridge...
ADAPTATION. At its core, Adaptation is an analysis of the intellectual diseases that plague every writer, from editorial pressure to sibling rivalry to unrequited love. But its narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film...