In the Land Of the Lonely
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Nearly 300,000 Israelis live on Arab territory in the West Bank. But with the U.S. pushing for a peace deal, their time may be running out
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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This is the time of year when, in the lengthening shadows of afternoon, the air grows still and mysterious around here. An aura of secrecy and duplicity replaces that friendly banter among serious fisherpeople. Down the long strand of beach, shadowy figures keep to themselves, never showing whatever success they may be enjoying.
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A GLIMMER of hope emerged in the Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday as people previously counted as dead emerged from the sanctuary of what little high ground there is in the remote Indian island chain.
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By FRANZEN  Drive on rural roads through southeastern Wisconsin on a chilly February day, and you can still find acres of windblown fields of white stretching into the distance. But the feeling of open space is illusory.
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Lonely people may be genetically pre-programmed for poorer health, say US scientists.
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The two gatherings, less than 200 miles apart, seemed to be separated by whole worlds. In this isolated village deep in the pine and cedar woods of
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The cloistered community of American poetry has, in recent months, become a little less like Yeatsâs Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue, and a little more like Allen Ginsbergâs âHowl.â
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A bluntly heart-tugging city-mouse, country-mouse fable from Iran.
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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For someone who revels in solitude in âInto the Wild,â Chris McCandless is remarkably good at making friends.
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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For Bobby Frankel, the melancholy prince of New York adrift in a strange place called Texas, the day was neither sunny nor gray. Bobby was neither in heaven nor hell, but in something akin to purgatory.
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HERE was a time, not so long ago in my more carefree youth, when I was a dedicated backpacker.   It went beyond the standard gapyear routine, and most summers I could be found in some distant corner of the globe, living the life of an adrenaline junkie.
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SYDNEY -- When Fletcher Christian and his crew of Bounty mutineers landed 214 years ago on tiny Pitcairn Island, its remote location halfway between New Zealand and Peru made it the perfect place to hide. Its isolation has protected the little colony's customs -- some quaint and some sinister -- ever since.