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...That Jesus wants to fight for America bears witness that, after centuries ?of a lifestyle set in stone, the walls of Batad are crumbling. Teenage big-city dreams, low-yield rice crops, worm erosion and tourism have all taken a toll. Despite unesco World Heritage Site classification, many terraces are in poor repair and protection efforts have been ineffective. Tourist impact is predictable: Batad's handful of caf?s and restaurants feature pizzas, and villagers don traditional costumes and head-dresses for photographs...
...escape the midday heat bouncing off the terrace walls, Jesus takes us to a huge pool gouged out by the tumbling Tapplya Falls. I ask him whether he will continue living here, as all the men in his family have before him. He quickly shatters my bucolic fantasy. "I want to be an aeronautical engineer," announces the 16-year-old. He's studying physics, hopes to one day join the U.S. Air Force and is only helping on the farm during the holidays. He'd very much like help with his college fees...
...Jesus is pure Ifugao (people of the earth), a tribe that took its carving skills and wood tools and reshaped entire mountains into a living three-dimensional contour map. The rice terraces around Batad, and nearby Bangaan and Banaue, are one of those world wonders that demand a top eight rating. For centuries bamboo pipes and an intricate network of rivulets have taken water scores of miles to irrigate thousands of rice fields half-a-day's walk above the valley floor. The terrace walls are two to three meters high and end to end would stretch...
...high-tech Chinese fiber-optic system was helping Saddam or last week announcing plans for a protest of Chinese human-rights violations. George Bush promised during the campaign that he would not make the Clintonian "mistake" of treating the Chinese as "strategic partners." Enough to rattle windows in Beijing. "Jesus," says a diplomat who helped press the pillowy strategy of trade and talk in the '90s. "Talk about a Great Wall...
...watch beauty pageants. That's because pageants take a normal pastime--ranking women by how they look in bathing suits--and turn it into something boring, with dance numbers. Plus, all the contestants are teenagers who look like 40-year-old anchorwomen and talk a lot about Jesus. You don't have to deal with that by the pool at the Delano...