Adventures of Link: Torch Travel
After passing through San Francisco, the Olympic Torch didn't find much trouble in Buenos Aires, Dar es Salaam or Muscat. Now in Pakistan, the torch is prepping for a tour of the rest of Asia before heading back to China.
Among the upcoming stops are Kuala Lumpur, Canberra and Nagano, and today's relay through Islamabad was incident-free. But beware, torch watchers: Protesters in Australia are already agitating, so we could be in for more drama.
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· Tracking the Torch [Google Maps]
· Tracking the Torch's Carbon Footprint [Slate]
· Chinese in Australia Vow to Defend Torch [Telegraph]
· Olympic Torch Run has Sparse Crowd in Pakistan [AP, via Google]
· China Completes Blacktop Road to Mt. Everest [AP, via IHT]
[Photo: Google Maps]
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Kite-flying is usually a competitive sport in Pakistan and India, one in which kids and adults glue glass or metal on the string and try to use it to cut loose other kites. The problem is that sometimes motorcyclists and kids get their throats cut by the string in the air. Reuters claims that there are "dozens" of injuries and/or death each year, but we wish they'd been able to get a better sense of the danger of this very old tradition. Since kite-flying is only allowed in Pakistan from Feb. 25 to Mar. 10, and some Islamists in the country have recently declared the sport un-Islamic, it sounds as if it might very well be getting rarer.
