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Way back in July

By Scott Wallick | Published: Dec 20, 2002
Way back in July it was hot—really hot. The hot that you can't escape, that makes you uncomfortable in your skin. Since it was July it was also the thick of the monsoon. Since it was July, I still wasn't half sure why or what I was doing in Nepal—or if I'd even be here a week later.
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Traditional medicine

By Scott Wallick | Published: Aug 25, 2002
Another night in a hotel room and I'm missing my flat in Birganj. I've been in Kathmandu (Thamel, actually, which is the tourist district) for four nights. I'll be away from Birganj for almost a week more before I get back to teaching and facing the devils who are my students. Two weeks ago in Birganj I developed an upper respiratory infection, which worked its way through my sinuses and into my ear—my inner ear to be specific.
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