World Hum’s Most Read: Aug. 30-Sept. 5

What We Loved This Week: Jose Feliciano, Rub’ al Khali and Raw Oysters

Don’t Be Cruel: Traveling ‘Elvis’ Draws Attention, Groans

It’s Not Easy Being Green and Crucified

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square

Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

Angelina Jolie to Star in Film About Daniel Pearl

Yeah, I deeply admire her, um, work too.

Everyone should read the New Yorker article about the death of Daniel Pearl. He was in a very dangerous place and ignored advice from all around, and then went alone to meet a member of the Taliban in a lonely place in Pakistan.

He was murdered.

Reporters are often heroes, but sometimes they take irrational risks and end up dead. Daniel Pearl should not be made a martyr, but rather a warning sign to other journalists bent on getting the latest story.

I’m sure Angelina Jolie has read the New Yorker article, but why she would participate in this glorification of a tragedy is beyond me.

Angie, why not a bio of Aung San Suu Kyi? That women deserves the attention.

Making a movie about a tragedy is not the same as glorifying it. If well done, it’s called art.  And Angelina knows a thing or two about art.

I think the same could be said about war movies. They don’t always seek to glorify war, yet they inevitably do in some way. The medium is the message and all that. Lawrence Weschler wrote a great piece about this for Harper’s when “Jarhead” came out.

Is this true that Jolie will film in India??? does anyone know where in India?

God Bless Mariane for writing this book and keeping Daniel Pearls Memory alive, while telling us a real story of these times that we live in.
God Bless Angelina for playing such a sad part; it is in keeping with the humanitarian work she is doing.  While Daniel may not have listened to all his warnings he was a pioneer in a dangerous land trying to do what few man have done, if he is glorified he does deserve it. Both of these women touch many lives with their work; I can not wait to see the movie. As for people who have something about why didn’t a woman of color play this part all I can ask is when did Mariane Pearl become a black woman? She is part Dutch, part Black and part Spanish, Daniel and Mariane’s son is multi cultural.  Angelina with her multi cultural family would identify, and add the passion this part deserves

Angelina Jolie definitely has a nice taste. She chooses everytime the roles which are interesting for her. So, she has read, liked it and chose!