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FLUSHING OUT HISTORY Bare-bottomed squatters beside railway lines are many tourists' first?and sometimes lasting?impression of India. Even Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, revolted upon visiting his ancestral homeland, once raged that "Indians defecate everywhere ... they never look for cover." It is therefore a bit surprising to find in New Delhi the world's only museum dedicated to the history of the toilet. But then this is a small museum with a big mission, as the sign opposite the entrance reading OPEN DEFECATION?SOCIAL CURSE can attest...
...Filipinos need no reminding that they are squarely in the sights of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and the presence of U.S. troops may have made the archipelago an even more tempting target. A year ago, an explosion rocked the Metro Railway Transit, killing 22 and injuring hundreds of others. The attack was carried out by Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, a self-confessed JI member with links to the Philippines' two major Islamic guerrilla groups, the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf. After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations...
...Third St., where De Niro and Pacino faced off in the movie Heat. A ONE-HOUR WALK: Along Ocean Ave. at sunset, past Palisades Park, the amusement-park rides on Santa Monica Pier and the bike path with hordes of Roller Bladers. A CULTURAL FIX: Bergamot Station, a former railway terminal that's now a hip arts center filled with galleries showing world-class artists and area favorites. A LOCAL TASTE: Chez Jay's, a funky beachside shack that has been serving seafood and burgers for decades. AN UNUSUAL SPORTS VENUE: The Fourth St. steps--from a bluff...
BRITAIN Firemen Strike, Brits Shrug If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike...
...contrast, trouble awaits those who want to get involved. Beside a railway track in south Beijing, five people have camped out in a plastic tent. Meng Jianxin, the most outspoken of them, traveled to Beijing last week from Fengjie city in Sichuan province, where his family home will be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. He says local officials embezzled much of his compensation money, and he's here to petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under...