AMANDA: “Are there any cannibals there?” asked my culturally sensitive fiance, Dan, referring to the Cook Islands, the current focus of our honeymoon saga. We both have demanding jobs where the honeymoon is the one acceptable time to go away for a long while. So we’re trying to make the most of it Read More
My flight to Fiji was almost all Westerners, but by the time I got on a bus from the airport to the capital, only three others came along–women, young backpackers. All the rest had headed for the resorts, to surf and dive. And before long, the girls went, too. They got out about two hours Read More
There’s this disturbing report in my New York Times . Television comes to the Fiji islands and, within three years, the number who had induced vomiting to control their weight jumps 12 percentage points: from virtually nothing (3 percent) to a lot of something. We become numb to overused words, terms like eating disorder, substance Read More
There’s this disturbing report in my New York Times . Television comes to the Fiji islands and, within three years, the number who had induced vomiting to control their weight jumps 12 percentage points: from virtually nothing (3 percent) to a lot of something. We become numb to overused words, terms like eating disorder, substance Read More
