Sri Lanka

  • What the tsunami dragged in

    Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines.
  • A full moon over Sri Lanka

    Inside Buddhist and Muslim temples, I discover how Sri Lankans are coping spiritually with the disaster. Nothing has been more moving during my entire trip.
  • Tea with the Tamil Tigers

    Inside a camp controlled by Sri Lanka's militant rebels, I investigate rumors that the Tamil people are being shortchanged in tsunami aid.
  • "Everyone here has post-traumatic stress"

    As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors.
  • Toy story

    With a truckload of stuffed animals, soccer balls and Frisbees, we head to refugee camps to bring relief to the kids of Sri Lanka.
  • The buried village

    A "Dateline" film crew gets in the way as I make my way to a former surfing hot spot, where families line up for hygiene kits, and a hotel owner, who reminds me of Lenny Bruce, reclaims fishing boats.
  • Tsunami, ground zero

    After the waves hit, I dared myself to do something. Now I'm in Sri Lanka, where nothing will ever be the same again.
  • Suckers from strangers

    Sri Lankan pedophiles are jailed for using heroin lollipops to lure victims.
  • Michael Ondaatje

    "Anil's Ghost"
  • Miss Militant

    Girls just wanna have total global domination.
  • Painting the eyes of a god

    Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," returns with a shimmering, suspenseful tale of a skeleton with a dreadful secret.
  • Arthur C. Clarke

    For decades, the author of the science-fiction classics "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" has exhibited an uncanny ability to see the future.
  • Fear and loving in Sri Lanka

    Serendipity is the traveler's best friend.
  • "Cinnamon Gardens"

    An epic novel captures Sri Lankan high society at the turn of the century, starched but beginning to wrinkle.
  • A different kind of resort in Sri Lanka

    A reader discovers that an off-the-beaten-track resort in Sri Lanka offers a little less than it promises.
  • Newsreal: Lone gunmen

    The most serious terrorist threat to America comes not from organized or state-sponsored groups of political militants but from loners with a grudge and a gun.
  • "Planet Star Trek": Part 2

    Science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke agrees that if we can't cruise outer space ourselves, "Star Trek" is the next best thing to being there.

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