In light of the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration has announced new enhanced “guidelines” requiring airline passengers traveling from (and through) 14 different countries to undergo especially rigorous security screening before being able to fly into the United States.
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Oh, Calcutta!
Call it by its well-known colonial name or the postcolonial P.C. “Kolkata,” the place that Mother Teresa did most to popularize is a City of Joy and cultural powerhouse like no other. AsiaScoop Contributing Photographer Dev Nayak offers an eclectic glimpse of India’s most marvelous metropolis.
Belief Above All
Long before Europe’s enlightenment and centuries before Gautama Buddha renounced his princely life and set out to solve the riddle of human suffering, a band of ascetics in India offered hope and redemption to the masses.
Shanghai Malls
Forget Beijing and the 2008 Olympics. As Shanghai goes, so goes the rest of China. After she graduated from Stanford University this past spring, Katie Salisbury spent nine weeks in China’s most industrial and cosmopolitan city, studying its shopping malls and the people who inhabit them. For Salisbury, it was a fascinating, if somewhat pricey, experience.
