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...what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor the small pleasures of traveling: the funny spelling on a Dutch sign, a cypress tree in Provence that's straight out of a Van Gogh painting, or a stranger's kitchen glimpsed from a speeding train...
...light morning mist hangs over the jungle as Peter Taggart sets a hornbill on a tree branch. Taggart runs an antipoaching station in the Cardamom Mountains in southwest Cambodia, and the hornbill, a black bird with a white breast and an oversize yellow beak, has been confiscated from a local villager. "The guy was keeping it as a pet," says Taggart, who works for Washington-based Conservation International. "He said he didn't know it was protected, but they all know, really...
When the Israelis came to the Abdel Hadi Palace in one of their recent forays into the Casbah in search of militants, they took away Zakari's son Khalil, 21. Now standing by the pomegranate tree, Khalil tells how he was detained two days in a camp outside Nablus with most of the other young men of the Casbah, huddling without shelter. He says he was beaten when he refused to recite a crude rhyme that professed love for Israeli troops and cursed the genitalia of Palestinian mothers. He finally recited it to avoid being hit again. Weeks later...
...officer was sent to Hollis Hall after receiving a report that a fallen branch was blocking the walkway. The officer notified Facilities Maintenance Operations, which cleaned up the tree limb...
...LUNCH Unlike its New York and London counterparts, Nobu Tokyo doesn't make you wait three months for a table. Plus, it features a delightful midday prix-fixe meal at about $30. 6-10-17 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, tel. 03 5467-0022. PEOPLE WATCHING Stroll along Omotesando's wide tree-lined avenue of designer boutiques, where Tokyo fashionistas gather to shop and strut. Hunt for souvenirs at kitschy Oriental Bazaar, Omotesando-dori, tel. 03 3400-3933. GLAMOROUS COCKTAILS Take in wraparound views of Tokyo at the New York Grill on the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt Hotel. Live jazz...