Kanchanaburi, Thailand The photo above, which shows a gravestone belonging to one of the nearly 7,000 Allied POWs buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand, illustrates the difficulty we have in making sense of tragedy. Last week two talented photojournalists, Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington , were killed in the Libyan city of Misrata....

Penang, Malaysia Interesting people can be found in hostels, bus stations, and everywhere else where lungs pull in breath. Then there are the places where lungs have long fallen still: cemeteries. Interesting people are found here, too. For example, behind an Anglican church in Macau in late 2004, I met a young woman named Abby...