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Description and travel

Beirut Elegy

by Edward W. Said,

by Jorge Luis Borges,

by William Shawcross,

In Bangkok, new wealth and old soldiers

by David Black,

Distance measured in time

by Simon Winchester,

A Silver Spirit crosses the Iron Curtain

by David Owen,

Shrine-hopping in the Holy Land of rock-and-roll

by Robert P. Kearney,

by Cullen Murphy,

Science confronts the miraculous--the shroud of Turin

A good word for Mexico City

by Simon Winchester,

Imperial obligations

by George Plimpton,

Notebook from a forbidden Olympics