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LIVING & TRAVEL final in the series Index Entry 1: March 13, 1996 Entry 2: March 15, 1996 Entry 3: March 27, 1996 Entry 4: April 3, 1996 Entry 5: April 8, 1996 Entry 6: April 18, 1996 Entry 7: April 22, 1996 Entry 8: April 27, 1996 Entry 9: May 1, 1996

five scenes from southern mexico This is me. In Mexico. Hi mom. Paper-making workshop, San Cristobal, Chiapas. Making masks for the cover of a forthcoming book of traditional Chiapan women's songs, spiritual poetry and chants. Clothing for sale in Zinacantan, a Chiapan highland village known for growing flowers. Bullfight sequence from San Cristobal "Fiesta de la Primavera" celebration. The participants enter the ring. EZLN banner hanging outside a university in Oaxaca, proclaiming solidarity and asking for a peaceful solution to political conflict. Andrew Nystrom is a 21 year-old Geography-Linguistics student at the University of California at Berkeley. Currently on sabbatical, he has been working as a freelance editor/travel correspondent. Previous travels have taken him to Indonesia, Scandinavia, Ireland, and Guatemala. He was most recently the editor of the Berkeley Guide to Central America for 1996.