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• ‘Where Elephants Weep’: A Cambodian opera for modern times
  The arrival of “Where Elephants Weep” in Lowell is a journey of both tragedy and hope, and one that has involved a cross-cultural collaboration among many people behind the scenes.

• King of the blogs (Shift, Summer 2001)
  Weblogs are everywhere these days. A Nebraska man named Evan Williams has a lot to do with that. Here’s the story behind his community-building tool blogger.com, which allows you to blog-blog-blog the world within minutes.

• Americans living ‘outside the box’ through Peace Corps in Cambodia
  It marks the 46-year-old Peace Corps’ first program in the poor Southeast Asian country, which was bombed by American B-52 bombers during the Vietnam War, ravaged by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and further weakened by a civil war in the 1980s.

• Cambodia cyclos may soon disappear
  PHNOM PENH’S crowded streets have become the loneliest of places for the city’s cyclo drivers as peddle-power is making way for a faster pace of life in the Cambodian capital.

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