Around the World and Into the Psyche
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The New York Film Festival, 42 years in the running, continues to command respect as a showcase for eminent filmmakers and up-and-coming masters.
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I live in Bali, where our workshops are located, and I work in New York. Iâve been known to make the 25-hour flight to Indonesia every month or so.
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Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people.
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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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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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Are you a blue state American who has the blues? Think Bush is Hitler, and want to burn your American passport ASAP to escape the New American Police State? You sense a disturbance in your aura while sitting in the lotus position meditating upon your healing crystals? Here's a few countries for you to think about: Panama, Costa Rica, and Canada.
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Travel brings home to the average cosseted Westerner a truth well understood by the great proportion of the world's population: that life is a tenuous proposition, a fragile entity.
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A number of recent pieces showed how dance can powerfully focus attention on the essentials: the body, movement, human existence in a mysterious and unknowable world.
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Some on-the-ground research from my recent vacation to Southeast Asia.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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So Iâve finally finished the tough slog through The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedmanâs much-cited opus on globalization. One could take issue with the 577-page bookâs uneconomical approach to language, but itâs hard to dismiss its basic economic premise: The playing field is leveling out, as India, China, and other emerging markets plug in to a global economy. Outsourcing is a fact of life.
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Interpretations of the insanity plea have changed through the ages, but advances in neuroscience promise to redefine free will and personal responsibility, and change the way we think about punishment. By Rowan Hooper.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Follow Forbes columnist Rich Karlgaard as he travels the world in search of great thinkers and big ideas.
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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Millenia Gallery goes global today with the opening of "The Internationals -- Four Continents, Four Countries, Four Artists," an exhibition exploring the concepts of unity and freedom.