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Sylvia Plachy and her son Adrien Brody speak to Klara Glowczewska about travel, film and family. He says that although he is a New Yorker at heart and misses it more than any other place when he is away, he likes feeling free, part of other communities.

Don't recognize Budapest, the city of my childhood, anymore. It had always been gray, dark from soot and from a sense of foreboding. As children we were well behaved and [...]

Features Terrence Malick, writer-director who created the motion picture `The Thin Red Line.' Background of the motion picture; How the movie was created; Actors featured in the film.

Discusses marriage ceremonies in Rome, Italy. Why most couple wanted to have their wedding ceremonies in Rome; Information on Grand Luxe International, a company that arranges wedding ceremonies in Rome; Importance of wedding to the Italian culture.

Explores the preoccupation with calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago. Evolution of calypso music; Influence of calypso in the Caribbean; Messages of the lyrics of calypsonian music; History of calypsonians.

Features the tourist and religious attractions of Lourdes, France. Estimated number of visitors to the Lourdes shrine; Religious activities; Hotel accommodations; Short history of the shrine.

Describes sites in the Western part of the United States where sightings of and encounters with aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFO) have been reported. UFO sightings in the Area 51 base and from the `Extraterrestrial Highway' in Nevada; Recovery of a `flying saucer' in Roswell, New Mexico; Extraterrestrial-oriented festival called The Crash; Impact crater in Winslow and Leupp, Arizona.

Discusses the agricultural breeds around the world--like wild species--that are vanishing and taking with them a rich genetic heritage. Holstein dairy cow; East India Black duck; Akhail-Teke stallion; Cotswald sheep; Lincoln Longwool ram; Scotch Highland cow; Scientists gain a foothold in new fields of biotechnology; More.

Discusses how meditation has moved into the inner city, the hospital and the psychic spa. Meditative yoga; Stress reduction classes; Three month-course at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts; How mindfulness differs from Transcendental Meditation (T.M.); Ultimate purpose; Father Basil, meditation missionary at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts; Dramatic shift using meditation for medical reasons; More. INSET: Watch your breath, by D.G..

Presents photographs of the 1998 Iowa State Fair. Brief comments from Leona Ashman; Brief details about the fair.

Reports on what the workplace is like for women nurses. New York City's Bellevue Hospital; Voxie Shields, a 27-year-old registered nurse (RN) at Bellevue; Why women decide to become nurses; Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing; Licensed practical nurses (LPN); A day at work with Shields; Conflicts between nurses and residents over the issue of medication; Solange Delva, a 34-year-old nurse at Bellevue; The nurse shortage; The nurses' station; More. INSET: Nurses wanted..

Describes the author's experiences aboard the ship Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2). Voyage aboard the QE2; Author's recollection of Cunard cruises in the 1920s; QE2 as floating city.

Photographs taken by Sylvia Plachy at the Kentucky Derby and at a nearby cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky are presented.

The article offers information on the photographs taken by the author at the Rafha Refugee Center in Saudi Arabia. The author discusses her experience of visiting the refugee camp on May 1991, which is an official tour offered for United Nation observers and journalists. She stresses that the camp was inhabited by refugees who escaped from the terror during the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. She points out that while on tour, she noticed a little girl wearing a black veil and decided to take a photograph of her with a barbed wire surrounding the camp as her background. She explains that the photograph depicts a memory of the issues happening in everyday life.